Father, two sons shot to death in North Miami after dispute with neighbor, police say
A dispute between neighbors turned fatal when a man shot and killed three men Monday afternoon near downtown North Miami, authorities said.
Pierce Nelson Hoempler, 33, was charged with three counts of second-degree murder, North Miami Police Maj. Kessler Brooks told the Miami Herald. He was booked Tuesday morning into Miami-Dade County’s Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he remained as of 2:30 p.m. after a judge ordered him held without bond.
“The department is confident that we have all parties involved in police custody,” North Miami Mayor Alix Desulme said in a statement Monday night.
Police have not released details on the shooting, including what led to it or the identities of the men killed, just that it happened “over a neighbor’s dispute.” But a woman who said she is a family member of the men killed told CBS News Miami that the shooting was over “a little fight” with a neighbor.
Around 4:15 p.m., three men were shot in the area of Northeast 123rd Street and Fifth Avenue. Brooks said that when officers arrived, they found three men, ranging from 30 to 50 years old, with gunshot wounds.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedics pronounced two of the men dead at the scene. The third was flown to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he died, Brooks said.
Hoempler was arrested Monday night.
This developing story will be updated as more information becomes available.
This story was originally published November 13, 2023 at 7:28 PM.
