Two injured after an argument led to a shooting at Nordstrom in Aventura Mall, cops say
Two people were wounded after an argument led to a shooting at the Aventura Mall Nordstrom on Friday morning.
As of Friday afternoon, Aventura police had tweeted there was “an arrest” but a spokesman later said there was no one in custody and that investigators were questioning a group of people who may have been involved.
“We believe the two involved may know each other,” said Sgt. Hans Maestre, a spokesman, who added that one gun was recovered.
Aventura officers and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue responded to the mall at 19501 Biscayne Blvd. at 11:20 a.m. Officers assigned to the mall gave chase to at least one person but did not open fire.
“The general public was in no danger,” Maestre said, who called the actions of the officer “heroic.”
The two people were taken to a nearby hospital as trauma alerts. One of them is in critical but stable condition, said a police spokesman. The other is in stable condition.
Helicopter video taken by WSVN, which first reported the shooting, showed Miami-Dade Fire Rescue wheeling the two people out of the store and into two nearby ambulances.
“Today’s incident @AventuraMall was quickly addressed by Nordstromsecurity #AventuraMall security and @aventurapolice officers assigned to the mall leading to a quick arrest. This was an argument between four individuals and not related to anything else,” the police department wrote on Twitter.
Aventura Mall has reopened but Nordstrom remains closed.
This developing story will be updated as more information becomes available.
This story was originally published May 29, 2020 at 12:09 PM.
