Jul 19, 2009 9:04 pm US/Eastern
Overtown Mom Evicted After Party Erupts In Gunfire
MIAMI (CBS4) ―
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Twelve people were shot when three gunmen opened fire at a Miami party.
CBS
An Overtown woman, whose birthday party for her son ended in a hail of gunfire and the deaths of two people, has been kicked out of her home in the Culmer Place public housing development.
Juliette McClain, 49, was evicted Friday from her duplex unit for violating her lease agreement. In issuing the eviction the county's housing agency cited "criminal activity" and "drug and alcohol abuse" during the party on July 5th, according to
CBS4 news partners
The Miami Herald.
''We have a zero tolerance policy in public housing,'' Jeffrey Gorley, the agency's crime reduction coordinator, told the
Miami Herald. ``If you violate the law or your lease, you could be evicted.''
About 200 people were at the party for McClain's son Lawrence Smith when three men dressed in black and armed with AK-47s and handguns opened fire on a crowd gathered in the parking lot. Twelve people were shot and woman was hit by a car as she tried to escape the gunfire. Two of those who were shot, 21-year-old Michelle Coleman and Booker T. Washington Senior High football player Anthony Smith, 17, died of their injuries.
In a
CBS4 Exclusive, Coleman's mother, Andresa Prater, said, "I place her in God's hands. She was given to me. I give her back to him. She was my miracle baby. I had her for 21 ½ years. She was a loving child. She was my angel. She did everything I told her to."
"I feel the pain that every parent who has lost a child has felt. I reach out to all those parents and ask for prayers for me and my family," said Prater.
There have been no arrests in the case and police have said that they've received few tips in regards to the shooting.
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