MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – People working in a southwest Miami-Dade warehouse district described hearing a barrage of bullets as an active shooter opened fire Thursday, injuring multiple people.
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The shooting happened shortly before 1:30 p.m. in the 7300 Southwest 45th Street.
Several businesses are in the area. The shooting came during a scary time: Thursday was Take Your Child to Work Day. It’s not clear whether any children were hurt.
A mother with her son while working at a nearby business spoke to Local 10 News reporter Rosh Lowe.
She said she didn’t hear gunshots, but got a call from a loved one warning her about what was going on.
“I just ran and locked the front door and we stayed inside until we made sure that everything was safe,” she said. “We’re OK now, but, yeah, I was scared. It was scary for a minute.”
Others in the area did hear gunfire.
Nearby worker describes lockdown, man describes gunfire:
One man, a furniture store worker, told Lowe that he heard about eight shots.
“It’s all like warehouses. So I’m thinking it’s a muffler,” he said. “We hear it again. It’s like, ‘boom, boom, boom’ again. And we looked at each other, we said, ‘Oh, no, that is not a muffler.”
Describing the police response, he said he heard law enforcement officers “coming fast, police from everywhere different like cities in Miami, or all coming, all forces from everywhere.”
Rosie Riguero, a worker at a nearby business, described going on a lockdown as she was at her desk after seeing a swarm of officers from her window.
“(There were) police everywhere, helicopters. I said, let me turn on the internet see what’s going on, because nobody knew what’s going on,” she said. “So we started shutting all our doors, telling our clients, our store was full of clients, ‘Please do not go outside,’ shutting doors. People got nervous.”
Another worker in the area said, “It was pretty scary. It was pretty scary because I was outside, went to get something from my car and all of a sudden, there were cop cars coming from all of the directions.”
Woman describes scene:
