Rapper Saucy Santana and 2 others shot after leaving strip club near I-95, troopers say
Rapper Saucy Santana and two other men were shot and wounded early Wednesday shortly after leaving a North Miami-Dade strip club, according to troopers.
Santana, Justin Harris, 27, and another friend had left The Office Gentlemen’s Club, 250 NE 183rd St., and were driving to the northbound Interstate 95 ramp at Miami Gardens Drive when a white Chevrolet sedan pulled up alongside them.
Someone inside the car began shooting into Harris’ white Honda sedan, according to Florida Highway Patrol.
Harris and his two passengers were struck by bullets around 4 a.m. Harris and his front-seat passenger were shot in the arm. The other passenger was shot in the hand.
One of the two passengers was hip hop artist Saucy Santana.
The Tallahassee rapper, who found fame on SoundCloud with his song “Walk Em Like A Dog,” was in Miami scouting locations for a new video, a spokesman for Santana’s talent agency confirmed to the Miami Herald.
A video the rapper posted on Instagram shows him partying — and twerking — inside the club shortly before the shooting.
“I’m lucky, blessed to be alive,” Santana told NBC 6. I got shot in the top of my shoulder, you was aiming at my face or at my head, that’s an instant kill.”
Santana, who is openly gay, said he might have been targeted because of the “type of artist” that he is, the AP reports.
Santana and his two friends were taken to Aventura Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, according to an FHP spokesman.
He “wants to thank everyone for the calls and support,” his talent management agency wrote on Instagram Story Wednesday.
Video from WSVN shows several bullet holes in the white Honda’s windshield and passenger-door window.
The I-95 on-ramp in the area was closed during the investigation. It was reopened after morning rush hour.
There have been other recent troubles related to The Office. One man died in October after a confrontation turned into a gunfight outside of the club. Three men were also shot in the club’s parking lot during a drive-by shooting in July. One of them later died at the hospital.
Anyone with information on Wednesday’s shooting is asked to call police.
This story was originally published December 11, 2019 at 6:31 AM.
