In today’s Quickcast:
A woman was taken into custody on Thursday afternoon after she allegedly tried to steal a vehicle and lead police on a chase through Southwest Miami-Dade. According to police, the chase began around 1:42 p.m. as a reported carjacking at Palmetto Bay car dealership, located at 16165 S. Dixie Highway. The female suspect was test-driving a car — a silver Honda Civic Sport — and when the salesperson stepped out of the vehicle, she then drove away from the lot, police said. Miami-Dade Police’s Aviation Unit was dispatched and then began tracking the vehicle, which traveled northbound on the Palmetto Expressway before turning at some point and driving south. The pursuit came to an end when the driver crashed on the exit ramp near Jackson West Hospital in Doral, on Northwest 25th Street, just as Chopper 4 was reaching the scene. After crashing, the suspect fled the vehicle and attempted to escape from officers by jumping into the nearby waterway and swimming away. Two officers jumped into the water to grab her and pull the suspect out of the water, who seemed to be partially nude. Those officers and many other responding police agencies then escorted the suspect to a police car. Traffic was backed up on the southbound lanes of the Palmetto Expressway.
An investigation is underway after an early morning shooting across the street from The Shops at Midtown Miami. It happened just after 4 a.m. along North Miami Avenue near NW 35th Street. Miami police said a man who was shot multiple times was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center where he died. A man who lives across the street said he heard the gunshots. "It was like pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, it sounded like they were shooting at somebody. I was scared of really moving, whatever, I don’t know, they were pretty close. So I stood still for a little while and then I started hearing the police coming," said Juan Gomez. "I was just glad it did not fly into my house and hit me. "Gabriel Moore, who lives in the area, said he saw the man who had been shot. Miami police identified the victim as 24 year-old Demarco Harris. "The first thing I thought was it was one of my people because a lot of my people have dreadlocks," he said.Moore said he was shaken by what he saw.
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