At the very minimum, they should have had off-duty or told police about the event.” At least back then, they weren’t hiring off-duty officers. “They never gave police a heads up when they were having large parties,” he said. The flyer incorrectly listed Hialeah as the city where the event was taking place. The venue, located on the 7600 block of Northwest 186th Street, was hosting a Memorial Day Weekend album release party on Saturday night featuring live performances from local rappers, including ABMG Spitta, according to several event fliers posted on Instagram. The venue where the shooting occurred, El Mula Banquet Hall, located in the Country Club Shopping Center in an unincorporated area north of the State Road 826 big curve, has been on the radar of police for some time.Įl Mula, which used to be called Magic Mushroom, had been rented out for the evening, according to police. “This is a despicable act of gun violence, a cowardly act.” El Mula Banquet Hall
“We believe this is a targeted act of gun violence,” said Ramirez, whose department has dealt with an uptick in gun violence in recent months. Want more of our free, weekly newsletters in your inbox? Let’s get started. “This type of gun violence has to stop,” Ramirez said, asking anyone with information on the shooting to come forward, and promoting on Twitter a Miami businessman’s offer to give $100,000 to anyone with information leading to an arrest. But Ramirez said during an early-morning press conference outside the Country Club Shopping Center, where the shooting took place, that the latest attack was “definitely not random.” Investigators had not identified any victims, suspects or motives in the shooting by mid-Sunday afternoon. The two people killed in the shooting were pronounced dead at the scene. He said at least 12 other victims went to various hospitals on their own. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue took eight of the injured to Miami-Dade and Broward hospitals, said Miami-Dade police spokesman Detective Angel Rodriguez. The aftermath was so chaotic - with paramedics, friends and family members driving victims to various hospitals in both Miami-Dade and Broward counties - that police on Sunday afternoon were still trying to identify everyone who was shot.
Some unidentified people in the crowd shot back at the suspects, Ramirez said. The gunfire erupted early Sunday at the El Mula Banquet Hall in northwest Miami-Dade. Investigators work the scene of a shooting outside a banquet hall Sunday where two people died 20 were injured.