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‘Sir, I’ve been shot’: Victims in shooting in Fort Lauderdale called 911
Gunshots erupted on a Fort Lauderdale street early Saturday morning and moments later, several of the men who were struck called 911, pleading for help and for one person to be rushed to the hospital.
A shooter or shooters fired at a car in the 600 block of Northwest 62nd Street just after 5 a.m. and fled the area. Three people were found shot inside the car and were taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where one was pronounced dead.
Fort Lauderdale Police on Monday identified the person who died at the hospital as 18-year-old Marion Harrison.
A fourth adult man was found after the shooting and taken to the hospital “as a precaution,” but he was not shot. It was not known where he was found or if he was also in the car with Harrison and the others during the shooting.
Two of the men who survived remained in the hospital as of Monday afternoon, but the police department did not release their conditions or names.
One dead, three hospitalized after shooting in Fort Lauderdale street
In one of the 911 calls released Monday, a man told a dispatcher that he didn’t see anything suspicious. He only heard repeated bangs. On edge, he asked if he could leave the area.
A woman was walking near Northwest Sixth Way and TD Bank, at 665 NW 62nd St., when she heard the gunshots, she told a dispatcher. Throughout the call, a man screamed and cried in the background. A woman’s voice could be heard faintly instructing someone to take a “deep breath” in the background.
“Ma’am, I don’t know,” the woman said when asked what happened. “I was literally walking by and I heard shots fired, and then, um, there was people in the car. I don’t know …”
The screaming continued.
“They got shot!” she said to someone in the background.
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The screams were closer in the third 911 call. “Police!” someone screamed at the start of the call.
“There’s been a shooting. There’s been a shooting,” a man quietly said when the dispatcher answered. “… Get me out! TD Bank,” the man said, groaning. “I don’t know where we at, but we just got into a shooting.”
“Get me out … C’mon get me out! My leg!” he shouted.
“OK, what’s going on?” the dispatcher asked.
“Four people just got shot,” he said as someone continued to cry and scream for police.
“Hurry up. You gotta get here, bruh,” he said before the line disconnected. The dispatcher attempted to call the number back, but no one answered.
Another man called 911 from a nearby Wawa gas station on Powerline Road.
“There’s been a shooting,” he told the dispatcher.
There was confusion about what city the man was calling from, and after the dispatcher tried to question him about the address and asked for his phone number, he said, “Sir, I’ve been shot.”
“Tell me exactly what happened, sir,” the dispatcher said but the man did not respond. “Hello? Sir, I need you to tell me exactly what happened.” Only rustling could be heard.
The dispatcher struggled to get the man to answer any of his questions before the man who said he was shot hung up the call.
The last call released Monday seemed to come from inside the car where the victims were injured. A man groaned and complained about his leg.
“Hello, 911,” the dispatcher said amid the commotion.
“I just got shot,” the man said to the dispatcher, seemingly out of breath.
“Where were you shot, sir?”
“I’ve been shot. I don’t know,” he said.
The dispatcher asked him again where he was shot.
“Bro, please, you gotta … somebody, please, bro,” he pleaded with the dispatcher. “I’m bleeding everywhere bro.”
The man continued to groan in pain. Someone else screamed.
“Who’s yelling in the background?” the dispatcher asked. “Hello, sir? Sir, what’s your name?”
“You gotta get me out of here,” he said. “My leg is f—– up …”
The sound of the sirens seemed to be moving closer to them by the time someone shouted for his brother to be taken to the hospital. Then, a different man’s voice in the background could be heard asking repeatedly who shot at them.
“It don’t matter,” someone answered. ” … I don’t know. C’mon please, get me out of here, please.”
As of Monday afternoon, Fort Lauderdale Police said the Homicide Unit is continuing to investigate.
Authorities ask anyone with information to call Det. Jennifer Saint-Jean at 954-828-5570, the department’s homicide tip line at 954-828-6677 or anonymously contact Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.
Photos: August supermoon
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Monday’s supermoon is the first of four this year.
During a supermoon, the full moon inches a little closer than usual to Earth. A supermoon isn’t bigger, but it can appear that way in the night sky, although scientists say the difference can be barely perceptible.
September’s supermoon will coincide with a partial lunar eclipse. October’s will be the year’s closest approach, and November’s will round out the year.
More a popular term than a scientific one, a supermoon occurs when a full lunar phase syncs up with an especially close swing around Earth. This usually happens only three or four times a year and consecutively, given the moon’s constantly shifting, oval-shaped orbit.
The supermoon rises from behind a resident building in Berlin, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber) A supermoon rises behind the Galata Tower in Istanbul, Turkey, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra) The super moon rises behind the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounio, south of Athens, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Michael Varaklas) The super moon rises behind the Dome of the Rock shrine at the Al Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) A supermoon rises behind the Burj Khalifa, world’s tallest tower in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Altaf Qadri) A nearly full supermoon rises in the sky after rain in Beijing, Monday, Aug. 19, 2024. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group. The AP is solely responsible for all content.
Today in History: August 19, last U.S. combat troops leave Iraq
Today is Monday, Aug. 19, the 232nd day of 2024. There are 134 days left in the year.
Today in History:On Aug. 19, 2010, the last American combat brigade exited Iraq, seven years and five months after a U.S.-led invasion marked the beginning of the Iraq War.
Also on this date:In 1692, four men and one woman were hanged after being convicted of witchcraft at Salem in the Province of Massachusetts Bay; the story of one of the men, John Proctor, inspired Arthur Miller’s play “The Crucible.”
In 1807, Robert Fulton’s North River Steamboat arrived in Albany, two days after leaving New York on its maiden voyage.
In 1812, the USS Constitution defeated the British frigate HMS Guerriere off Nova Scotia during the War of 1812, earning the nickname “Old Ironsides.”
In 1814, during the War of 1812, British forces landed at Benedict, Maryland, with the objective of capturing Washington D.C.
In 1854, 31 U.S. soldiers were killed after one of the soldiers fatally shot Brule Lakota Chief Conquering Bear, sparking the First Sioux War.
In 1909, Indianapolis Motor Speedway hosted its first automobile race.
In 1934, German voters approved the vesting of sole executive power in Adolf Hitler.
In 1955, torrential rains caused by Hurricane Diane resulted in severe flooding in the northeastern U.S., claiming some 200 lives.
In 1960, a tribunal in Moscow convicted American U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers of espionage. (Although sentenced to 10 years’ imprisonment, Powers was returned to the United States in 1962 as part of a prisoner exchange.)
In 1980, 301 people aboard Saudia Flight 163 died as the jetliner made a fiery emergency return to the Riyadh airport.
In 2013, South African sprinter Oscar Pistorius was indicted in Pretoria, South Africa, on charges of murder and illegal possession of ammunition for the shooting death of his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp, at his home on Valentine’s Day 2013; Pistorius maintained he’d mistaken her for an intruder. (Pistorius would be found guilty of murder and sentenced to prison; he was released on parole in January 2024.)
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