Miami-Dade deputy responding to carjacking shoots armed teen in Homestead: MDSO
A Miami-Dade deputy shot an armed teenage boy in Homestead while responding to a carjacking Monday night, according to officials.
The shooting happened after 10 p.m. near the 2500 block of Southeast 28th Street, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said.
Undersheriff Christopher Carothers told reporters that deputies responded to a carjacking in the area around 8 pm. They tracked the car to the neighborhood, where three armed young men, believed to be in their late teens, abandoned the stolen car and ran.
One teen had an assault rifle and was shot in the arm by one of the responding deputies, Carothers said.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue took him to Jackson South Medical Center. His condition was not immediately available.
Carothers noted no one else, including the other deputies and the two other people in the car, were injured.
“The Miami-Dade sheriff’s deputies just displayed the utmost courage,” Carothers added. “They engaged armed subjects to keep our community safe.”
The two people in the car were taken into custody.
‘It was really scary’
Investigators taped off several blocks of the recently-build development as deputies, Homestead police officers and detectives with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement — the agency that investigates all police-involved shootings — scoured the area while conducting their probe. Officers with police dogs went yard to yard, searching between houses.
Investigators recovered two firearms, but were still searching for the other gun into the early morning hours Tuesday, said sheriff’s office Detective Argemis Colome.
Virginia Trejo was doing her homework in the first floor of her family’s two-story townhome around 9:30 pm when she heard what sounded like two gunshots.
She went upstairs to get a better view of what was happening and saw several officers running around with flashlights. “It was really scary,” Trejo, 23, said. “I actually started to cry.”
This is a developing story and will be updated as more information becomes available.
This story was originally published November 3, 2025 at 11:29 PM.
