A shooting at a graduation party has killed at least three people and wounded six, police said Sunday, the latest in a string of shootings in the Miami area. College is around 2 a.m. on a Sunday. Miami-Dade Police Chief Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez said at a news conference that one or more vehicles “stopped and started firing into the crowd,” and identities of the dead and injured were not immediately released Sunday. The person who died in hospital, Ramirez said, authorities identified the person who died in hospital as Tilisha Taylor, 20, who had been working at Dade Correctional Institution since January 2020. The FDC family, Officer Taylor, was killed in a fatal shooting. “Our prayers are with her family as they overcome this unimaginable loss,” Florida Secretary of Corrections Mark Inch said in a statement. “It just shows you the scale of the issue of gun violence.” “It affects not only the community, but also the law enforcement community.” Two men were also killed when their car crashed into a wall on the Kendall campus of Miami Dad College as they fled the scene. At least one rifle was in the car, Ramirez said, but the exact connection to the shooting was not clear. Violent weekend: Miami sees more violence as search continues for 3 gunmen suspected in fatal party shooting: What we know, Sunday’s shooting followed last week’s shooting. It killed three people and injured 20 others over the bloody and unresolved Memorial Day weekend. “This violence must stop,” Ramirez said. “This is so frustrating. Every weekend it’s the same thing. And we just have to work together. We did Operation Summer Heat, we made a lot of arrests, we confiscated a lot of firearms and here we are again.” Another shooting killed May 28 in the area Wynwood killed one person and injured six others. said Daniela Levine Cava, mayor of Miami-Dade County. “She is horrified” by the latest shooting, she said in a statement on Sunday. “We will not allow a small group of violent actors to terrorize our society, and violent offenders will face the full burden of the law.” She added that she is fully committed to making sure the Miami-Dade Police Department has all the resources they need to end this cycle of gun violence and prevent further tragedies by keeping violent criminals off the streets.”
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