Man who survived being shot 7 times four years ago killed during Sunday night attack
In 2015, Jamal Pieze was a 16-year-old football player at Miami Jackson High School when he was shot seven times as he was walking to an Allapattah grocery store. His survival stunned his family and doctors.
On Sunday night, Pieze, 20, was shot again, this time by a group that coordinated an attack on a Northwest Miami-Dade home during a gathering of family and friends, according to police.
Rushed to the hospital, Pieze died there. Reached through a friend Monday, Pieze’s mother said she was too distraught to speak about her son’s death.
Two others were struck by gunfire and injured during the attack. At least one person inside the home at 726 NW 116th St. returned fire. A 21-year-old was shot in the arm and treated and released from the hospital. And a 13-year-old boy who was shot in the head was in critical but stable condition and underwent surgery Monday, police said.
Miami-Dade Police Detective Alvaro Zabaleta said Monday that investigators were still trying to piece together the events surrounding the shooting and that detectives weren’t certain if any of the assailants were shot. By Monday night there were no reports from hospitals of anyone being shot.
Zabaleta couldn’t confirm claims by a man who said he knew the people who lived in the home and that the shooting happened during a birthday celebration.
“It was some type of get-together,” the detective said.
Police did not release the names of the injured teen and the man shot in the arm.
The shooting happened just after 11 p.m., according to police. The three victims were transported to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. One man, who lives about a block north of the home, said he woke up to the sound of rapid gunfire. More shots sounded about 10 minutes later, he said.
Anti-gun violence activist Tangela Sears said she made certain a victim’s advocate was sent to help Pieze’s family after the man’s mother contacted her early in the morning about the shooting. It was Sears who confirmed that Pieze was the same person who survived a savage attack four years ago.
In December 2015, Pieze was on his way to a grocery store in Allapattah less than a block from his school when he was shot at. He ran and was chased down. When the shooting stopped, Pieze had been struck seven times in the leg, the skull, and an arm. Family members rushed him to the hospital.
He was visited in the hospital by several Miami Heat players including Chris Bosh, which made headlines and kept the story alive. It wasn’t clear Monday if any of the shooters in the 2015 attack were caught.
The men who fired at the home Sunday night remained free on Monday. Police said they consider the men who began the shooting “armed and dangerous” and are urging anyone with information to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.
This story was originally published November 18, 2019 at 6:47 AM.
