4 men were fighting outside of a Pinecrest McDonald’s, police say, and one was shot
A man was taken to the hospital with several bullet wounds after a fight outside of a McDonald’s in Pinecrest escalated into a shootout, police said.
The shooting happened around 7 Monday night at a McDonald’s in the 12600 block of South Dixie Highway. The fast-food restaurant is next door to Pinecrest Village Hall and the city police department. Video from WSVN and Local 10 showed evidence markers scattered across the parking lot. Some of the markers were McCafe cups.
“This was not a random shooting,” Pinecrest Police Chief Jason Cohen said in a statement.
Cohen said the four men involved in the fight knew each other. At some point, two took out their guns, and shots were fired.
Local 10 reported that two of the men involved in the fight are McDonald’s employees and that the group was fighting over a woman who works at the restaurant, the girlfriend of one of the men who does not work there.
When asked about the incident, McDonald’s said in an emailed statement that its “first priority is always the safety of our customers and employees” and referred all other questions to Pinecrest police.
Cohen, the Pinecrest police chief, declined to say if any of the men were McDonald’s employees or what they were fighting about, saying it was part of an active investigation.
One of the men was shot several times. He then got into a vehicle with one of the other men and quickly left, police said. But they didn’t get far.
Their vehicle crashed into a light pole about a block away.
A woman who called 911 to report the crash said one of the men was yelling, “Call 911, my brother got shot.” The Miami Herald obtained a recording of the 911 call through a public records request.
The wounded man was taken to Jackson South Medical Center. Police said he was in stable condition.
The three other men involved in the fight are cooperating with detectives and no arrests have been made at this time, Cohen said.
This story was originally published October 5, 2021 at 7:58 AM.
