Mr. Wolverton was working in his office and watching his guilty pleasure, Live with Kelly Ripa & Mike Stranahan this morning when the station preempted the broadcast. There was a shooting of two women in the Hammocks one dead and one air lifted to a trauma center. The shooter drove off from South Miami-Dade with an air pursuit following the shooter for over 30 miles at high speeds to U.S. 27 and Griffin Road in Weston where the shooter T-Boned a Mercedes, ejecting the Mercedes' driver spinning out both cars.
What was most chilling to my husband was that the police did not attend to the ejected driver at all for about 10 minutes. Over the course of the next hour a police cruiser pulled up beside (what looked like) the ejected man and ascertained the Mercedes driver was alive. They drug him behind the police cruiser. Called for air transport. Moved him again into the back seat of the cruiser to take him to the incoming helicopter. They called off the air transport. I surmise the (wo)man died.
UPDATE 3:00 EDT: The Mercedes Sedan driver was a woman.
The local station showed a tense perimeter of police surrounding the SUV for long minutes. We watched in horror not realizing the time stretched to over an hour...hour and a half, two hours. We had a report of shots fired. An SUV window broke. Apparently the incident ended with the SUV driver killing himself.
Three dead. One hanging onto life in a trauma center.
UPDATE: The daughter died too. Four dead.
Channel 10 showed the video live of the car crash and have posted it for anyone who wants to see it on their web site. Local 10's coverage showed the violence with minimal editing.
I'm passed wanting to know why. I want it to stop.