Three people have been killed and at least five more injured during a shooing in Miami, Florida.
Per CBS News, police responded to reports of shots being fired in the parking lot of the College Park Shopping Plaza, in the Miami suburb of Kendall early on Sunday, June 6.
A police spokesperson has confirmed that at least one vehicle, subsequently identified as a red Toyota Camry, pulled into the parking lot near to where a graduation party was taking place.
The gunman then opened fire on people leaving a hookah lounge, wounding several people. The driver of the automobile then sped off and crashed into a wall at the nearby Miami Dade College Kendall campus.
Both the driver and the passenger in the car were killed as a result of the collision, while one of the injured gunshot victims, 20-year-old corrections officer Tyleisha Taylor, died shortly after being taken to the hospital.
Florida Secretary of Corrections Mark Inch later confirmed Taylor's death in a statement to ABC affiliate WPLG in Miami, stating:
"We are devastated to learn a member of our FDC family, Officer Taylor, was killed in a fatal shooting. Our prayers are with her family as they navigate this unimaginable loss."
Police later recovered a firearm in the fuselage of the crashed vehicle, although investigators are currently looking for a second car that may have been involved in the crime.
Commenting on the shooting in a later interview with CBS, Miami-Dade Police Director Freddie Ramirez voiced his frustrations with gun crime in the area, stating:
"Every weekend, it's the same thing. We have to ban together. We did Operation Summer Heat, made a lot of arrests, seized a lot of firearms and here we are again.
"There's a lot of work to do. We have to come together as a community and make this stop."
This incident comes a mere week after a mass shooting by three masked suspects driving an SUV outside a banquet hall in Northwest Miami-Dade left two people dead and a further 21 wounded.
CBS reports that the SUV in question was later pulled from the Biscayne Canal just off NW 154th Street and NW 2nd Avenue, approximately nine miles from the crime scene.
Miami Dade police are offering a reward of $130,000 to anyone who can provide accurate information as to the identities of the three culprits.