‘Ripped me apart’: Mother seeks answers after teen son killed in trailer park shooting
A teen boy was shot to death Wednesday afternoon in a trailer park just outside the city limits of Miami.
Barry Ellis III was 15.
A pair of 911 calls brought both Miami police and Miami-Dade police to 8050 NW Miami Ct. around 4:35 p.m. When they got there, they learned a boy had been shot and was being driven to a hospital. Miami Fire Rescue got to Ellis and took him to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center, where he later died.
Barry, an eighth-grader at Horace Mann Middle School, had big dreams and loved to play video games with his friends, mother Latasha Goldwire told Miami Herald news partner CBS News Miami.
Goldwire said she was always worried about getting Barry home safe. She now dreads her birthday, which she shares with her son.
“This was the last thing I would have thought would have happened,” she told CBS News Miami. “He meant so much to me.”
In an emotional plea, Goldwire begged whoever is responsible for Barry’s killing — or knows the culprit — to come forward.
“This ripped me apart from outside to my inside,” she told CBS News Miami. “I just can’t think. It’s like my heart is inside my stomach right now.”
“We owe this family a little bit of peace, a little bit of closure,” Miami-Dade police Detective Angel Rodriguez said at the scene.
Anyone who knows anything about this shooting can reach out to Miami-Dade police or Crime Stoppers of Miami-Dade and the Florida Keys either online or at 305-471-8477 (TIPS).
This story was originally published April 27, 2023 at 5:23 AM.
