Miami Herald

At least 4 shot and wounded — the latest in a spate of shootings in Miami

- — CARLI TEPROFF

Four teens were wounded Monday night in a shooting outside an apartment complex not far from the Joseph Caleb Center in Brownsvill­e. The shooting happened around 7 p.m. in the area of Northwest 58th Street and 24th Avenue.

The Caleb Auditorium is at 5400 NW 22nd Ave.

Injured were a 17-yearold girl and three 19-yearold men, according to a law enforcemen­t source with knowledge of the investigat­ion. One man suffered a critical injury, although all were expected to survive.

Police responded to a ShotSpotte­r alert that showed that over 50 rounds were fired.

Monday’s gunfire followed a pair of mass shootings eight days earlier in which 14 people were injured, many of them juveniles. No one was killed. Law enforcemen­t has been so frustrated with a lack of informatio­n from potential witnesses that they had a victim’s family member speak at the scene of one shooting and released surveillan­ce video from the other.

The first shooting happened just after 7 p.m. on Jan. 2. As dozens of people were gathered at Little

River Park at Northwest 105th Street and 24th Avenue to watch or play basketball, a vehicle pulled up and at least two shooters unleashed over 100 rounds, some from an semi-automatic rifle. Eight people were shot, two of them juveniles. No surveillan­ce video has surfaced and earlier this week, MiamiDade police said they had not received a single credible tip since the shooting.

Then two hours later and four miles to the south, three people ambushed a vehicle with six juveniles in Allapattah after the group stopped at a Dominican food truck. In the video, the shooters pass the food truck and car with the victims, turn a corner, and park. Then they get out; two open fire from behind a screen on a chain-link fence a few feet from the car.

Miami police have asked for the public’s help in identifyin­g the shooters.

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