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Nov 13, 2007 11:00 pm US/Eastern

2 Killed In Police Involved Shooting

  Police say two officers had stopped a vehicle for running a red light. As the officers walked over, the driver abruptly accelerated his vehicle toward them, posing an "imminent threat."

Miami Dade police say the incident began when their officers tried to pull over a Cadillac sports utility vehicle for running a red light at North Miami Court and 68th Street.

Det. Roy Rutland said, "This could have easily been one traffic stop that unfortunately turned into an aggressive behavior by a subject traveling in a vehicle."

Officers pursued the car until 65th Street. The officers got out of their marked patrol car and ordered the men out of the Cadillac.

The police said the vehicle sped toward them in reverse, smashing into the police car.

''They had to shoot in self-defense,'' a spokesperson for the Police Benevolent Association said.

A woman in the Cadillac was also wounded during the incident.

"I just want to tell them they didn't kill all of us," the woman who survived said. "You'll left one and as long as my mouth works I am going to speak, they are going to know the truth."

The driver was identified as Michael Knight, 23. The passenger, Frisco Blackwood, 23. Knight and Blackwood were both on state probation.

Blackwood was serving two years probation for burglary and grand theft. Knight was on probation for fleeing a law enforcement officer and resisting arrest without violence.

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