One Dead, One Wounded In W. Dade Restaurant Shooting
WEST MIAMI-DADE (CBSMiami) – Police are searching for the man who killed one man and put another in critical condition after a shooting at La Cueva USA Café on Bird Road in West Miami-Dade.
Miami-Dade police spokesman Det. Javier Baez says it started with an argument between four men. During the confrontation, one of the men pulled a gun and fired several shots.
The two victims were taken to Kendall Regional Medical Center where one of them died.
Police have not released the names of those involved.
Gladis Londono works at the cafe, and told CBS4's Natalia Zea she ran from the bullets.
"To save my life, that's all I was thinking," said Londono.
Londono insists the men involved in this double shooting were not customers of the restaurant.
"A man who we don't know came here and started shooting. He shot a young man who was outside, he shot the glass, he shot inside," she said.
Homeowners in the area, like Maria Lopez are nervous. Lopez told Zea in Spanish that she's frightened because she has an 18 year old daughter that goes out in the neighborhood.
The owners and employees of the beauty salon right next door to La Cueva say this kind of tragedy was bound to happen here.
"There was always women prostituting themselves. We would see women leave with guys, we would see drunk men just laying down on that grass all the time," said Michelle Galvez, the salon owner's daughter.
Galvez says the cafe nearly cost the salon customers.
"They would be like oh what is that, those people are disrespectful, or like what type of place is this. It gives the shopping center and this neighborhood a bad name."
Londono says the restaurant has security and that this double shooting was not the cafe's fault.
