A fight at a family party ends with 2 wounded and a Miami Beach man arrested
It began as an argument at a family party. It ended with a shooting that sent two people to the hospital, police said.
A 36-year-old man went to a Miami Beach home and shot at their front door to “scare” one of them, police said. The two who were injured did not have life-threatening injuries, police said.
Jeannik Pizetti-Perez, 36, was arrested early Monday and charged with one count of aggravated battery and one count of shooting or throwing a deadly missile.
Police refused to release the names of the two who were injured, blacking out their names in the report they released to the public. Police said the names would not be released because the incident was “domestic violence related.”
The shooting happened just before 9 p.m. Sunday near the 1800 block of Normandy Drive, according to Miami Beach police.
Police say Pizetti-Perez told investigators he and one of the victims, a man, got in an argument that turned physical at a family member’s party earlier Sunday. Police said Pizetti-Perez and the two victims knew each other “via family connections” and lived a few minutes away from each other.
The two left the party and returned home shortly before 9 p.m. At some point, the man and Pizetti-Perez began arguing again over the phone. Pizetti-Perez told investigators he eventually drove over to their house to confront the man.
He stepped out of his 2017 Gray Dodge Ram Truck with a firearm in his right hand, according to the arrest report.
The two victims told investigators they slammed their home’s door closed when they saw the six-foot, 200-pound Pizetti-Perez arrive. They then heard gunshots, realized they were injured and called police.
Responding officers said they found one man and one woman with possible gunshot wounds. The man was injured in the chest, a woman was shot in the left arm, according to the report. Both were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center with non-life-threatening injuries, said Miami Beach police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez.
Pizetti-Perez later admitted to walking up the stairs and shooting at the home’s closed door twice because the man “insulted him and he wanted to scare him,” according to the arrest affidavit. Pizetti-Perez then drove off.
Police briefly blocked off streets in the area during the investigation while officers attempted to find and speak with Pizetti-Perez. Officers speaking with him over the phone eventually persuaded him to return to the area, where he was then taken into police custody without incident.
Pizetti-Perez told investigators he had driven away to turn himself in at a police station, according to the arrest report.
Investigators said he consented to having his truck searched and that a silver and black S&W 40 caliber handgun was found in the front seat. Detectives said they also found possible bullet holes in the front door of the home as well as two .40 caliber live rounds on the stairs.
Pizetti-Perez was taken to Mount Sinai Medical Center to get his left ankle treated for an injury he received before the incident that was not police-related, according to the arrest report.
He was then charged and taken to Miami-Dade Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he was being held on a $15,000 bond Monday afternoon.
This story was originally published October 12, 2020 at 7:34 AM.
