Man who police say sprayed a Miramar neighborhood with bullets has been arrested
.jpg "Miramar officers were spotted walking in the Sherman Circle neighborhood early Tuesday after receiving reports of shots fired in the area.")
A 24-year-old Miramar man who police say unleashed a hail of bullets on a Miramar neighborhood — and responding officers — Tuesday morning, has been arrested.
Shaheem Smith, who is under community control for a pending armed robbery charge from 2019, now faces charges including attempted murder, aggravated assault with a firearm, shooting into an occupied dwelling and criminal mischief.
He was being held Tuesday night in Broward’s Main Jail with no bond.
Police say the shooting left “extensive property damage,” but no one was injured. It appeared that the shooter’s target was
According to police, several calls came in reporting a shooting near the 8100 block of SW 21 Ct. (near Sherman Circle) at about 7:30 a.m. Tuesday.
When officers arrived to the NewPark Towers Apartment community, they began dodging bullets, police said. A bullet “whizzed past” an officer and “hit an object behind her,” according to Smith’s arrest report. Some officers searching for where the gunfire was coming from, also took fire, police said.
Smith, according to the report, was firing into a neighbor’s apartment. The neighbor, who was not identified, hid in a closet with her young son and called police. When the shooting was done, there were 19 bullet holes in her apartment, police said.
Police began evacuating the surround apartments in the neighborhood, which has a tennis court and is near a shopping center that has a Sam’s Club and a Walmart Supercenter.
When officers found Smith, “responded to all commands given and was detained without incident,” according to the report.
“SWAT Officers also noticed spent casings all over the apartment as well as a semi-automatic rifle consistent with the spent casings,” a detective wrote in the report.
After being taken into custody, Smith “continued to repeat himself that someone was trying to kill him,” police said. He then refused to give police a statement.
This story was originally published June 1, 2021 at 11:01 AM.
