Posted on 09/13/2007 9:05:29 AM PDT by tdewey10
Two Miami-Dade police officers have been injured in a so-called Tactical Operation gone bad in Cutler Bay.
This is currently a developing story that began at SW 281st Street and 143rd Court in Cutler Bay where the two officers were possibly shot, reportedly with an assault rifle.
Other officers may have also been hurt but only with minor injuries.
At least one officer has been transported to Jackson Memorial Hospital.
After the shooting, one suspect barricaded himself inside a building at 280th Street and Southwest 143RD Court.
The other suspect took off in a White Honda Accord and began driving on the Turnpike and led police on a short chase before he bailed out at 222nd Street and SW 110th Avenue.
That suspect, described as a chubby white man with long black hair remains on the loose.
Broward County police agencies have been alerted to the shooting of the Miami-Dade Officers.
This is a developing story so keep checking back here on CBS4.COM for updates
dude...
key west dive shop
ishmail ALI
know what AQ could do w/ this?
could have alrdy done?
Exactly. And it seems someone pinged me to another item in this thread today about another similar incident somewhere today- maybe midwest...but no police were killed.
I do believe there are amazing coincidences- and I know the way I view the world has chaged dramatically in the last 6 years....but this does seem unusual.
can you please get a screen shot of this in case it is taken down? Could be significant.
http://www.subtropic.com/staff/shane.html
full circle
theoretically, anyway
tie in to Columbus Ohio incident today too?
Thanks- that what I was thinking of!
Did you see my ping to the other thread?
If there is a plan in place, it’s wonderfully poetic if Shawn the kid ruined it all
Whoa! missed that tid bit...what happened in Ohio?
You were referring to this: "if that guy gets his hands on a hostage"
To which you responded: "well let’s hope he picks a card carrying member of the NRA"
You wrote it. I'll just have to assume you're blaming this incident on the NRA AND you're an ultimate clymer.
No, hoping the hostage has a gun.
You just made a fool of yourself. Have another drink.
It’s easy enough for anybody with Windows to get the shot. With that web page open and on top, hit “ALT-Print Screen” (that will get you the active window; just “Print Screen” will get you the entire desktop), then open up Paint, paste into it, and save (preferably as a JPG using “Save As”; Paint will default to BMP).
le took hvy fires, schools closed
maybe an ak, can’t remember
done
Both of you take 5.
yep, done. Cool. Thanks.
Details on how this went down:
http://www.miamiherald.com/459/story/236186.html
~snip~
Two officers spotted the suspect, driving an old Honda Accord, near a housing development at Southwest 280th Street and 143rd Court. After first misleading cops, police say, his girlfriend identified LaBeet.
The officers, Jose Somohano and Christopher Carlin, tried to stop LaBeet, but he took off, parked and ran into a house — it’s not certain whether he lived there. The officers called for backup and, when a woman who turned out to be LaBeet’s girlfriend arrived at the home in a car, approached the home to question the suspect.
From inside the house, police say, LaBeet opened fire through a window with an assault rifle, possibly an AK-47, striking officer Somohano, 37, in the neck and killing him.
LaBeet then ran out of the house and, detectives believe, shot Somohano again, then bolted for his car, firing wildly at other officers now arriving on the scene. The officers returned fire, shattering the car’s windshield, but missed the suspect.
‘’That man didn’t hesitate to shoot,’’ Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said at an evening news conference.
Officer Jody Wright, 31, was shot in the leg, her knee shattered. She yelled on her radio that officers were down and needed help. Bullets grazed the two other injured officers, Carlin, 34, and Tomas Tundidor, 37.
Police say LaBeet sped away, with officers in pursuit. He crashed into a fence along the Black Creek Canal at Southwest 129th Avenue and 203rd Street, jumped out of the car — apparently ditching his weapon, which police recovered — and disappeared on foot.
Afraid to leave Somohano, officers picked him up and drove him out of the development in a squad car. Paramedics pronounced the officer dead.
‘’We had to extract him because we didn’t know if there were other assailants in the area,’’ said Maj. Carlos Garcia, who oversees the Cutler Ridge police district.
A teen who lives across the street from where at least one of the officers was shot gave The Miami Herald an account of the incident that meshes with initial police conclusions.
The 15-year-old said she had run outside after her grandmother said police were pointing a gun at a woman. She said she saw a car out front, with the driver’s side door standing open. A woman was in the passenger seat and two children were in the back.
She said the woman got out and grabbed the children and ran into the house right before the shooting started.
‘I heard somebody say, `Daddy, no,’ like a little girl,’’ she said. ``That’s when they started shooting.’’
The shooting came from inside the house across the street, she said. As soon as she heard the shots, she ran inside her own house and looked out her front window.
‘’I saw the police officer laying on the ground,’’ she said. ``I think he shot out the window because there were holes in the window where the police officer was laying.’’
Within minutes, police began swarming the scene and the surrounding neighborhood. In searching one house, they stumbled upon an indoor marijuana farm.
Streets and local highway exits were closed to seal off escape routes, causing nightmarish traffic backups and keeping residents from their homes into the night. Cars were stopped and trunks searched.
The search later extended to central Broward County, where police believed the suspect — whose mother lives in Margate — might head. Police erected then dismantled a cordon around that neighborhood but remained stationed outside the house into the night.
~snip~
Sorry, but I don’t usually ignore attacks like that.
I see. mentioning FL CCW holder would have clear in the frist post. Card carrying members of the NRA wouldn't all be carrying.
"You just made a fool of yourself. Have another drink."
Not at all, given your last response, and I don't drink.
that’s the first I’ve heard of the details, thanks.
do you have a link to the Columbus Ohio incident?
Amazing, isn’t it? My impression had been this all took place in the street..
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