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Five Hurt In Another Liberty City Drive-By
Sunday's Shooting May Be Connected To Previous Shooting
All Those Injured Expected To Survive
LIBERTY CITY (CBS4) ―
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Five young men were injured in a drive-by shooting in Liberty City on Sunday.
CBS
Miami-Dade police are looking into whether a drive-by shooting in Liberty City Sunday night may be connected to a another shooting earlier this year.
Witnesses told police the five young men who were shot were standing near the home of a woman whose son died in another mass shooting in January. Those shot in Sunday's drive-by have been indentified as Troy Jackson, 18; Mike Alvin, 18; Alphonso Clar, 24; Lamorris Moore, 16; and Marquis Mills, 17. All five received gunshot wounds were in their arms and legs; all are expected to survive.
Jackson, Alvin and Mills were transported to the hospital. Moore and Clar were treated on the scene and released. One of them was grazed by a bullet and another was injured by shattered glass.
The shooting occurred at 4:15 p.m. outside the home of Lasonya Mills on the 2000 block of Northwest 71st Street.
Miami-Dade police have not said if the shooters had intended to target Lasonya Mills, the mother of 16-year-old Brandon Mills, a Miami Northwestern High School student, who died in the January shooting. But
CBS4 has confirmed that two of men injured are her sons.
CBS4 I-Team Reporter Jim DeFede spoke to Lasonya Mills late Sunday night and said she was not home at the time of the shooting.
"Several individuals were standing in front of the home when a silver or gray Monte Carlo stopped and opened fire with an AK-47," said Miami-Dade Det. Alvaro Zabaleta. "Detectives feel because of the time of day this occurred there were people who saw something and we are urging them to contact Crimestoppers. It's hard to say why it happened. Detectives are talking to the victims."
Mills had recently told DeFede that she hoped more witnesses would come forward in her son's murder.
"If that's how the community is, a lot of us is going to be dead around her," Lasonya Mills told Defede. "Brandon was a good kid. He's not in the system. He's never been to jail. He was still in high school. He was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
Derrick Gloster, 18, was also killed in January after at least someone opened fire on a craps game outside a corner store at Northwest 15th Avenue and 71st Street.
Police are asking anyone with information to call
Crimestoppers at 305-471-TIPS (8477).
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