Teen shot dead by Miami-Dade sergeant after chase, crash before charges – NBC 6 South Florida

Teen shot dead by Miami-Dade sergeant after chase, crash before charges - NBC 6 South Florida

A 15-year-old man who was shot dead by a police sergeant in a standoff after a chase and crash in northwest Miami-Dade faces charges, officials said.

Family members and a lawyer identified the suspect as Miami resident Vito Corleone-Venisse, who is charged with aggravated assault on a police officer and improper display of a firearm.

Miami-Dade Police officers said the incident occurred around 12:45 a.m. on Jan. 16 in the area of ​​Northwest 55th Street and Northwest 22nd Avenue while detectives were patrolling as part of the ongoing Community Shield initiative.

Detectives attempted to conduct a traffic stop of a Dodge Challenger, but the teenager driving the vehicle refused to stop. Shortly thereafter, the teenager lost control of the vehicle and crashed into a fence.

Officials said several people in the vehicle fled on foot in different directions and the police sergeant pursued the driver.

An altercation ensued between the sergeant and the 15-year-old, who was armed, officials said.

The sergeant opened fire, hitting the teenager, who was being transported by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.

The police sergeant, a 29-year veteran of the department, was not injured.

The teenager is still hospitalized and is now partially paralyzed from being shot in the back, his attorney told NBC 6 in a previous interview.

“Which raises questions as to whether this shooting was justified,” attorney Jarlens Princilis said on Sunday.

The teenager’s firearm was recovered from the scene and an assault rifle was seen prominently inside the vehicle, police said. Police also found another handgun in the car.

Miami Dade Police

Two of the weapons were recovered on January 16, 2022 at the scene of a Miami-Dade shooting involving an officer.

According to investigators, a file review revealed the teenager had an open court pick-up order for possession of a firearm and squatted burglary.

The remaining occupants of the car were still at large.

“These individuals drove around, first, a 15-year-old driving a car. Second, a 15-year-old, armed with a handgun, assault rifle in this vehicle, wanted for possession of firearms,” ​​Miami-Dade Das police spokesman Alvaro Zabaleta said. “These are people who are clearly up to no good.”

Princilis had his doubts about the officers’ version of the events.

“A half-truth is a whole lie,” he said. “We question whether the officers had any reasonable suspicion that they were carrying out an appropriate traffic stop.”

Princilis did not comment on the allegations against the teenager on Friday night.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the shooting.

The post Teen shot dead by Miami-Dade sergeant after chase, crash before charges – NBC 6 South Florida first appeared on Daily Florida Press.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Committee week in Florida’s Capitol: Welcome to the festival of ignorance

Image
Legislators came to town for the autumn ritual of political harlotry they call “committee week.” Tallahassee’s collective IQ dropped by a good 60 points. That’s bad, but what they propose doing to Florida is worse. Seems Sen. Joe Gruters, R-$ara$ota, who also is chairman of the Republican Party of Florida, was intimately involved with a plot to quash the Democratic vote. Remember that “ voting reform ” bill the governor signed on “Fox and Friends” last May? The one that restricts access to ballot drop-boxes, limits vote-by-mail applications, forbids giving people standing in long lines a bottle of water, and lets partisan poll watchers police canvassing boards? Even though Florida ran an immaculate election in 2020, Republicans goose-stepped in time with the Madman of Mar-a-Lago and claimed with straight faces they merely wanted to prevent election “fraud” — which is about as common as polar bears in Miami. (What fraud there was, was courtesy of the GOP .) Joe Gruters ...
Read more

U.S. House GOP would make it easier for feds to give public lands away to states

Image
U.S. House Republicans included in the new rules for the chamber they passed this month a provision meant to make it easier for Congress to give away public lands. The provision is a fairly technical piece of the 55-page  rules package . It affects internal House accounting and requires that anytime Congress were to give any federal lands to a state, municipality or tribe, it would not be counted as a loss to the federal budget. House Republicans had an identical rule when they controlled the chamber from 2017 to 2019. Advocates and critics agree the measure would be helpful to any effort by the House to transfer federal lands to states. But they disagree about the wisdom of such giveaways. Republicans and conservative groups see states as preferable stewards of most public lands. Those closest to the land are in a better position to make decisions on how to manage them than those in Washington bureaucracies, they say. Environmental groups and Democrats see federal divest...
Read more

Democratic governors press U.S. Senate to act on voting rights legislation

Image
WASHINGTON — Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and 16 other Democratic governors are urging the U.S. Senate to pass two bills that aim to protect voting rights. Both measures need 60 votes to advance under Senate rules but have been stalled by Republican opposition in the evenly divided Senate. “Without decisive action by the federal government this year to protect voters’ access to the ballot and ensure the integrity and transparency of our elections, the voices of Americans across the country, especially Americans of color, will be suppressed,” the governors wrote in a Monday  letter  to U.S. Senate leadership. Governors who signed the letter include Jared Polis of Colorado, Tim Walz of Minnesota, Steve Sisolak of Nevada, Phil Murphy of New Jersey, Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Kate Brown of Oregon, Tom Wolf of Pennsylvania and Tony Evers of Wisconsin, among others. One bill, known as the  John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2...
Read more