911 callers describe the shootout in Miramar
MIRAMAR Drivers who found themselves in the middle of a deadly police shootout last week described weaving around gunshots on the road, fleeing to safety and then discovering bullet holes in their cars.
The details emerged in seven 911 calls released by Miramar police on Wednesday, six days after the shootout left four people dead.
One caller said a bullet passed through his car and daughter’s car seat.
“But she wasn’t here,” “Thanks God.”
Another said she escaped by turning into a nearby gym and parking her car in the parking lot.
“I’m all right, I just got a little shaken up,” she said. “I was able to get away thankfully.” Her car was shot at least once.
During the call the woman reported helicopters in the air to the dispatcher. “Wow, is it all over? through he his said.
Did they asked.
“Yes, ma’am, its all dispatcher responded.
The Miramar Police Department was one of four agencies involved in the shootouts in the middle of rush hour traffic on Miramar Parkway. The gunfight occurred after two suspects tried to rob a jewelry store in Coral Gables, carjacked a UPS van, took its driver hostage and led cops on a chase through Miami-Dade and catch the guy?” over,” she the into the southern Broward County.
The chase ended once the UPS van hit traffic near Flamingo Road and Miramar Parkway, as police — some hiding behind civilians’ cars in traffic — fired on the suspects,.
The UPS driver, Frank Ordoñez, 27, was hit by gunfire and died. Also killed was Richard Cutshaw, 70, an innocent bystander who had been sitting in traffic. portion of
Both suspects also died in the shootout, which was shown live on television and on videos posted to social media.
Police have not said whether the dead were killed by shots from police or the suspects.
One woman who called 911 from a beauty salon near Flamingo Road and Miramar Parkway seemed to be phoning during the shootout itself. “Someone is shooting over here,” she said. She added that her coworkers were running scared and that she had turned off the lights in the business.
Other callers reported damage to their vehicles once they’d gotten out of the main thoroughfare where bullets were flying and sought refuge.
One said her Honda Accord was right next to the UPS van when the shooting started. “Shots started getting fired and I was able to wiggle my way out of that situation,” she said. She made a call to police hours after the shootout, when she was at home in Miramar and discovered bullet holes in her car.
Another woman called on behalf of her co-worker’s husband, who she said was in front of the UPS van, when the shooting started and reported shots coming from the truck. The caller said the man’s Hyundai Sonata had been shot five times before he was able to drive away from the scene and go to his wife’s job. “He had to move to get out of the line of fire,” the caller said calmly, describing how the
“Shots started getting fired and I was able to wiggle my way out of that situation.”
A 911 caller who said her car was right next to the UPS van when the shooting started
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Like other callers, she seemed calm in describing the situation they’d witnessed or been told about, as if careful to restrain their emotions. “We’re a little distraught over here,” she admitted at one point.
Another caller said he was at the traffic light at Flamingo Road and Miramar Parkway when his Dodge Ram pickup was shot twice as a result of the shootout. He fled to his job, a mile away. “I was so desperate,” he said. so he didn’t