Gunfight between two brothers led to Miami officers being shot, police say
A gunfight between brothers armed with semiautomatic rifles led to the shooting of two Miami police officers Thursday morning in Allapattah, according to the arrest report for the surviving brother.
The two officers -- a man and a woman -- responded to reports of a shooting at Northwest 26th Street near 14th and 15th avenues around 7:45 a.m. when they came under fire. The female officer was hit in the knee, and the male police officer, who is a sergeant, was shot in the ankle.
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Miami police have not released the names of the officers. Surgeons operated on both of them Thursday. The female officer has been released from the hospital, but the sergeant remained at Jackson Memorial Hospital on Friday, police said.
The man who police said shot the officers, 27-year-old Mason Triana, was found dead from a gunshot wound inside a nearby house at 1439 NW 26th St. The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating whether Triana was killed by police or if he shot himself, Officer Michael Vega, a department spokesman, said Friday.
He had taken shots at cops who were outside the house responding to the downed officers.
Detectives concluded that the mayhem was the result of a shootout Mason Triana had earlier in the morning with his older brother, 38-year-old Alan Henry Triana, according to his heavily redacted arrest report.
Alan Triana was booked into Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center Friday morning on felony charges of victim harassment in a capital felony, tampering with physical evidence, possession of armor-piercing ammunition, improper exhibition of a firearm and resisting without violence.
A judge set his bond at $6,000 on the latter four charges and has not set bond on the first, according to jail records.
Alan Triana was arrested after police served a search warrant Thursday night at ET Body Shop, a car repair business he owns at 2319 NW 27th Ave. An employee called him to tell him police were there and wanted him to come to the shop with a rifle they were looking for, according to the report.
When he arrived, he announced to the officers that, “I’ve got your [expletive] gun” and cops saw him holding a white plastic bag with the barrel of an AR-15-type rifle sticking out from the top, according to the report.
Officers, with their guns drawn, ordered Triana to the ground. He complied, but resisted being handcuffed, the report states.
Detectives got a search warrant for Triana’s grandmother’s house at around 10:30 p.m., where he was when the employee called him from his auto-body shop, according to the report.
Detectives took him there, and he told them they would find several guns, including an AR-15-style pistol. The detectives found several weapons, including that gun, which was loaded with “multiple green tipped armor piercing live ammunition,” the report states.
This story will be updated.
This story was originally published October 10, 2025 at 11:46 AM.
