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2 dead as bullets fly in W. Park
Shootings unrelated, deputies say
A woman is dead and her daughter and fiance remained hospitalized Friday after a hail of bullets tore through their car in West Park.
Soon after the first shooting, authorities were called to a second incident about a half-mile away, where they found a 26-year-old-man shot multiple times.
The shootings appear unrelated, the Broward Sheriff ’s Office said.
Deputies were alerted to the first shots just before 10:45 p.m. Thursday, authorities said.
At the scene, near the intersection of Southwest 22nd Street and Southwest 46th Avenue, deputies found that a barrage of gunshots had been unleashed into a gray sedan parked near an intersection. The bullets struck Tyrell Myrick, Patrice Nunnally, both 28, and Nunnally’s 9-year-old daughter, Kalaya Clark.
Witnesses described the scene after shots rang out from a dark-colored SUV that appeared to have three men inside.
Myrick and Nunnally, who a relative said was five months pregnant, were taken to Memorial Regional
Hospital in Hollywood. Nunnally died; Myrick remains hospitalized with serious injuries, the sheriff ’s office said.
Sheriff’s office spokeswoman Joy Oglesby could not confirm whether Nunnally was pregnant.
“At this time they don’t have any information the woman was pregnant. That is something the medical examiner will have to determine,” Oglesby said.
Kalaya remains hospitalized at Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital with serious injuries.
Myrick’s father, Tyrone Myrick, said his son is able to speak and is doing “pretty good.” Myrick’s mother, Karen Milline, said she was on her way to a hospital Friday morning when she spoke to the Sun Sentinel, but otherwise declined to comment.
A wedding registry on theknot.com shows Myrick and Nunnally had planned a wedding for October.
For several hours after the shooting, scores of small red evidence markers, each numbered, surrounded the bullet-riddled sedan with its rear window shot out.
“It looked like [the woman] was hit in the head several times,” said a man who was sitting on his porch when he saw the SUV pull up and the gunfire begin. He would identify himself only as Junior.
“I don’t know the victims but I’ve seen them many times, they’re my neighbors,” he said.
As deputies and detectives were investigating that shooting scene, emergency dispatchers were notified of another volley of gunshots nearby.
Deputies arriving at 5410 SW 23rd St. about 11:20 p.m. found Cody Sanders unresponsive, Oglesby said.
Neighbor Marlon Knowles said he heard gunshots outside his house and when he went to investigate, he saw Sanders lying in the driveway.
“He was gone, no doubt about it, I saw three bullet holes in his chest after the police cut open his shirt, right next to my barbecue,” said Knowles.
Broward Sheriff Fire Rescue took Sanders to Memorial Regional Hospital, where he died.