BSO: Public's Help Needed To Solve Pompano Shooting
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POMPANO BEACH (CBSMiami) – Broward Sheriff's Office investigators said they need the public's help to identify two men suspected to be involved in an attempted murder outside a Pompano Beach convenience store.
Detectives said the men are violent and need to be locked up.
Surveillance cameras rolled inside a Food Mart just after 1 a.m. on Saturday. BSO investigators said two men walked in, bought some stuff and left the store.
However, it was outside the store – near the men's white Ford Expedition – where investigators said things took a turn for the worse.
BSO said the man without a shirt and with tattoos got into an argument with a man on a bicycle. That led to a melee, with lots of punches thrown. At one point the shirtless guy appears to get taken down.
BSO said the two men left and returned about 90 minutes later. Detectives said a white Ford Expedition cruised around several times before someone in the car started firing shots
Video shows one bullet ricochet off the ground.
Detectives said a man who wasn't present at the fight got hit with two bullets – one in each thigh.
BSO spokesperson Gina Carter said that victim is expected to survive.
"Obviously these people have no regard for human life," Carter said.
She also said no one knows what led to the violence.
"Something set them off," Carter said. "We don't know exactly what."
Masuma Haque owns the Food Mart. She said the guys in the video do not look familiar but she hopes someone in the community knows them and turns them in.
"You want to find out who did this?" a reporter asked.
"Yeah," Haque replied. "I want to find who did this one, these people."
BSO wants to know, too, in hopes of preventing more bloodshed.
"These people are extremely dangerous and we need to get them off the street," Carter said.
If you have any information for investigators, contact Broward County Crime Stoppers at (954) 493-TIPS. You do not have to give your name and you could receive a reward of $3,000.