Gang violence 2012 Miami Florida

Gang violence 2012 Miami Florida

Was Opa Locka City Manager Bryan Finnie still in a state of disbelief - nearly 48 hours after the gunmen opened fire on a crowd outside a funeral home - and killed two wounded twelve.

"I can not begin to discuss just how I used this process," said Finnie CBS4 Jim DeFede on Sunday. "This is totally new undertakers have the churches been sacrosanct, I mean, that's safe ground, and now look -.. I am to be processed still for me it's still unbelievable I have not yet been added... "

Friday massacre was one of the worst mass shooting in South Florida history. Among the wounded was a five-year-old girl who comes of age found with a bullet in the leg.

The shooting also rounded up an unusually bloody month of gang violence on the north side of the Miami Dade.

Police sources estimate that over a stretch of the county not more than seven or eight miles long and three or four miles wide, not less than 30 people were shot and killed eight of March.

"It's the North Side, it is Liberty City, Miami Gardens, it is, it's Opa Locka, it's model cities", Finnie noted. "I have my, this is a community, their different boundaries, but a community, a family, and we should have a goal to resolve this problem."

In the midst of this violent land rests Mama Lucy All Pro Ribs on the corner of 119th Street and NW 22nd Avenue.

"There's only so much chaos," one of the restaurants, the chef, Rod says, as he leaned to one side of the ribs grilling on a barbecue. "It's hard out here now, you know"

When Rod hear about the filming of the funeral home - and got a 5-year-old was among the victims - he thought of his own family.

"I have children, so I imagine it can not even now," said the 27-year-old. "But why would anyone shoot a funeral home? I do not understand, dass"

Law enforcement sources say that the members of rival by four or five gangs had Funeraria Latina Funeral Home in West Dixie Highway went to death their respects to 21-year-old Andre Morvin who, when he jumped from the fourth floor of the parking garage pay garage at the Aventura Mall At that time he tried to escape Bloomingdale store security.

During the Friday wake of a report of the band members, in Andre's coffin reached and touched his body in a manner other than was disrespectful.

An argument ensued and one of the band members went to her car, picked up an assault rifle and a handgun and drove away, opened fire in front of the crowd as the funeral home.

"We have a lot of young, immature kids who want to be gang members commit themselves caught in this retaliation and this senseless, senseless shooting," said Finnie.

Finnie takes little comfort that this particular shooting took place outside the boundaries of his city - partnerships in Miami-Dade County. There was much violence in his city as well.

"It's just very stressful," he said, "because you are always thinking,` Are we doing enough? Are we doing the right thing? "

Law enforcement sources say they stiffen a violent summer as tensions between rival gangs are getting bigger.

Gang violence in Miami Florida for 2012 is on the rise.