Police-Involved Shooting Victim ID'd
MIAMI (CBS4) - Miami Police have identified 22-year-old Brandon Foster as the man who was killed during a police involved shooting in front of Allapattah Middle School Thursday afternoon.
The shooting happened after a patrol officer received a report that a man was walking around the area of NW 13th Avenue and NW 46th Street carrying what the witness thought was an AK-47.
"Some of our tactical robbery unit officers heard the transmission on the police radio and they responded to the scene, where there was a confrontation with an individual armed with what appeared to be a shotgun," Miami Police Chief Miguel Exposito said. "We know nothing about the individual. We don't know what he was doing carrying the shotgun."
The suspect was hit by a bullet from an officer's gun, and transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital where he later died.
A Miami Fire Department rescue truck got caught in the gunfire on the way back to station 12.
