A man is dead after a Miami Gardens police officer shot and killed him outside a home Friday afternoon. Police remained on scene for hours as they investigated what led to the shooting.

Neighbors told CBS News Miami they heard anywhere from three to nearly a dozen shots.

“And one minute later, there were 30 cop cars come by, every type of car,” neighbor Bryan Delpozo said.

Delpozo has lived for years near Northwest 182nd Street and 35th Avenue. He said he has never felt unsafe despite other shootings in the past.

“It’s kind of scary to be honest cause it’s so close by and not so long ago happen like a couple houses down too that’s kind of scary,” he said.

Another neighbor, who did not want to be identified, said in Spanish she was “super worried because you can be outside and something like this can happen.”

Police say they encountered a person in crisis

The shooting happened just before 4 p.m., a time when many people were getting home from work or school. Chopper 4 captured a large police presence and a yellow tarp in the backyard, where officers say they encountered a person in crisis.

“They saw this person that had a weapon,” Miami Gardens Police Chief Delma Noel‑Pratt said. “There was potentially another person that was on the scene that they [saw fit] that they needed to protect that person that was on the scene.”  

Unclear how many officers fired

Miami Gardens police and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement worked late into the night, even bringing in a mobile command center as they tried to determine what led up to the shooting.

“And we are not sure if there was one officer or two officers that fire fired their weapon at this time,” Noel‑Pratt said.

When asked for more information about the officers involved and their years of service, the chief said the department is still working through the details.

FDLE leading the investigation

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now leading the investigation, which is standard when an officer fires a weapon.

A Miami man who once faced charges in the fatal shooting of a 10-year-old boy more than a decade ago has been arrested in connection with a 2022 double murder, records showed.

Ernest Rowell, 28, was arrested Wednesday on two counts of first-degree murder in the Nov. 6, 2022 double shooting, an arrest warrant said.

Officers had responded to a Shot Spotter alert in the 700 block of Northwest 5th Avenue and found two men laying on a sidewalk unresponsive and suffering from gunshot wounds.

The victims, 28-year-old Deandre Mckeithen and 37-year-old Rayford Shipman III, were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center where they died from their injuries.

Investigators later recovered 28 spent bullet casings from the scene.

According to the warrant, surveillance video showed a Mercedes-Benz sedan passing the victims, who were standing on the corner of Northwest 5th Avenue and Northwest 8th Street.

The video showed the Mercedes come to a stop and two gunmen exited with assault rifles before they opened fire on the victims, the warrant said.

The gunmen then ran back to the vehicle which was driven by a third person and flee, the warrant said.

Using surveillance video and toll plate records, detectives found the vehicle’s owner, who said he rents the vehicle and advertises it on Instagram.

The owner said Rowell was a frequent client and had rented the vehicle on Oct. 27, 2022 and returned it on Nov. 7, 2022, the warrant said.

Investigators also discovered that Rowell’s phone was in the proximity of the shooting scene at the time of the double murder, the warrant said.

During a search of Rowell’s phone, investigators found a photo taken on Nov. 7, 2022 of Rowell wearing a gray hoodie and black ski mask which matched the description of the gunmen in the surveillance footage of the shooting, the warrant said.

The warrant for Rowell was issued last month and on Wednesday, he was arrested during a traffic stop involving Miami Police’s Gang Intelligence Unit and the FBI Violent Gang Task Force, records showed.

After he was booked into jail, Rowell appeared before a judge on Thursday who ordered him held without bond.

Rowell was previously charged in the March 2015 drive-by shooting that killed 10-year-old Marlon Eason, who was gunned down in front of his home in Overtown as he was playing basketball.

According to an arrest affidavit, Eason’s mother encountered Rowell and another teen, who admitted to killing her son. The teens said they were shooting at a car that had gang rivals inside, the affidavit said.

Rowell was 17 at the time of the shooting and court records showed the charges against him were dropped in March 2022, just months before the fatal double shooting.

The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office has released body camera and surveillance footage showing a deadly confrontation between a deputy and an alleged shoplifter at a Walmart in Southwest Miami-Dade.

According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies were notified that a man was allegedly shoplifting inside the store. Surveillance video shows the suspect walking through the aisles before exiting the building. Deputies say a deputy attempted to stop him as he left.

The man was later identified as 36-year-old Kennedy Graham.

Body camera video shows Graham running from the deputy as a struggle breaks out. In the footage, the deputy can be heard yelling, “Don’t resist, don’t resist,” as the two wrestle on the ground.

Deputies say the officer called for backup while trying to detain Graham.

Investigators say the video was slowed down to show Graham was armed during the encounter. Surveillance footage from outside the store shows the deputy pinning Graham to the ground and holding him by the neck with his legs as Graham continued to fight back.

At one point, investigators say Graham dropped the gun, then picked it up again and ran. The deputy is then seen pointing his weapon and firing.

Two people were in the parking lot when the shots were fired.

The shooting happened in the parking lot of the store located at 21115 South Dixie Highway on the morning of November 6, 2025.

CBS News Miami spoke with a witness the day of the shooting.

“What I saw was a guy in a white T-shirt running outside of the Walmart parking lot. I heard three shots, then all I saw was the police officer with the gun,” said a woman who did not want to be identified.

Graham was rushed to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead. No one else was injured.

In November, Miami-Dade Sheriff Rosie Cordero-Stutz defended the deputy’s actions.

“I will say this, this individual had an extensive criminal past. We are grateful at this time. The circumstances could have gotten so much worse,” she said.

Investigators also displayed the weapon they say Graham was carrying at the time of the shooting.

The deputy involved has not been identified.

In a statement released Thursday, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office said:

“We recognize that incidents of this nature raise questions and concerns within our community, and I believe the public has the right to see critical incidents involving law enforcement.”