‘It will take all of us’: Florida Memorial University officially anoints new president
Two people were shot Friday night, one fatally, as a relatively calm and peaceful spring break in Miami Beach was rattled by gunfire for a second straight year.
Four years after landing his job, Jaffus Hardrick was finally inaugurated Friday as the 14th president of Florida Memorial University, the only historically Black college or university
Miami Beach Police said two men were shot near Seventh Street and Ocean Drive in an “isolated incident” at about 10:41 p.m. Both were taken to Ryder Trauma Center, where one died. The other victim was listed in critical condition Friday night but has been said Pedregón, who hopes that at least “one or two players will desert,” despite (HBCU) in South Florida and one of the oldest schools in the state.
Universities usually swear in presidents within 12 months after hiring them. It took longer for FMU to induct Hardrick, 61, because of what he described as “challenging times.” released from the hospital, police said Saturday morning.
Four guns were recovered and one man was detained at the scene, Miami Beach Police said, though it wasn’t immediately clear whether the person detained was the shooter. Police said the the control the Cuban security forces exercise against them.
Since coming on board in 2019, Hardrick has led the private university through one of the toughest periods in its 144-year history, a period that included the COVID-19 pandemic and an economic crisis that threatened its person is “cooperating fully with the investigation.”
Miami Beach police spokesperson Ernesto Rodriguez said Saturday morning that the identities of the people involved could not be re
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