Miami-Dade County

He refused to give up his Chevy Malibu and was shot to death in an Opa-locka parking lot

A man was killed in Opa-locka Friday morning after refusing to give up his car, police said.

According to Miami-Dade Police, Frank Labady, 25, was sitting in his parked Chevrolet Malibu at 13004 Alexandria Dr., when another man came up to him, pulled out a gun and demanded he turn over the car.

As Labady tried to drive away, police said, the man shot into the vehicle and killed him. The car crashed into a wall in a parking lot and the suspect took off.

By early Friday evening, police had not named the suspect.

Police are urging anyone with information to call Miami-Dade police at 305-471-8477.

This story was originally published September 13, 2019 at 2:57 PM.

Carli Teproff
Miami Herald
Carli Teproff grew up in Northeast Miami-Dade and graduated from Florida International University in 2003. She became a full-time reporter for the Miami Herald in 2005 and now covers breaking news.
Charles Rabin
Miami Herald
Chuck Rabin, writing news stories for the Miami Herald for the past three decades, covers cops and crime. Before that he covered the halls of government for Miami-Dade and the city of Miami. He’s covered hurricanes, the 2000 presidential election and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting. On a random note: Long before those assignments, Chuck was pepper-sprayed covering the disturbances in Miami the morning Elián Gonzalez was whisked away by federal authorities.
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