Teen pointed gun at deputy before getting shot, Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office says
A 15-year-old boy pointed a loaded handgun at a Miami-Dade deputy before he was shot Thursday afternoon, the sheriff’s office said.
The teen, who the Miami Herald is not naming because of his age, was treated for an ankle wound at Jackson South Medical Center and arrested Friday upon discharge on charges of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer, possession of a firearm by a minor and resisting without violence.
The deputy is a detective with the sheriff’s office’s Special Enforcement Team, which was working in Goulds when they received reports of armed teens at Joe and Enid W. Demps Park around 3:30 p.m., according to the teen’s arrest report.
The detectives searched the area and found a group of teens about a block south on Southwest 221st Street and 112th Court. When detectives got out of their car, the boys ran away.
The boy ran behind a house and ignored “multiple commands to surrender” from the pursuing detective, the report states. The teen then tripped and rolled over on his back, pointing the gun at the detective, according to the report.
That’s when the detective, “fearing for his life,” opened fire with his service weapon, striking the boy in the ankle, according to the report. The report did not state how many shots the detective fired.
The semiautomatic handgun deputies say the boy was carrying was reported stolen in July, the report states.
Another teen in the group, who is 17, was also arrested on charges of tampering with physical evidence while armed, carrying a concealed firearm, possession of a firearm and ammunition by a minor and resisting an officer without violence.
Both teens were in juvenile justice custody Friday.
According to his arrest report, he was among the group who ran away when detectives got out of their car. The teen was clutching his waistband as he ran “as if attempting to conceal and control a firearm,” detectives wrote in the report.
He ran inside a house on Southwest 220th Terrace. Detectives say they saw him enter a hallway inside the home before coming outside to surrender. When they arrested him, he was not carrying a weapon, according to the report.
Detectives obtained a search warrant for the house and found two loaded handguns — a Taurus .9 mm loaded with an extended magazine and a loaded .40 caliber Taurus pistol — inside the hallway closet, according to the report.
