Police Arrest Neighbor Who Blamed Herself For NW Dade Apt. Complex Shooting
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Police have arrested a woman who blames herself for a shooting Monday at a northwest Miami-Dade apartment complex that injured two people.
It's same the complex where 6-year-old King Carter was shot and killed in February.
The shooting happened just after 7 p.m., at the Blue Lake Village apartment complex off NW 12th avenue and 103rd Lane.
"A fight broke out between me and my friend. Her sister's boyfriend came downstairs, he shot one time in the air. After that the boy down on the first floor, he passed his friend a gun. His friend just went shooting," said Audrey Finnie.
Finnie told CBS4's Peter D'Oench, "Maybe he wanted people to scatter or break up a fight. I am not sure. He was mad because I got into it with his baby mama's sister."
But the arrest report sheds a whole new light on Finnie's role in the incident.
According to the report, Finnie "became extremely irate and went inside her resident and retrieved a kitchen knife." She then reportedly approached a car and slashed all the tires while screaming obscenities.
Finnie followed that up, as stated in the arrested report, by climbing onto the hood of the car and smashing the front windshield by kicking it repeatedly.
The report also stated she also smashed the rear window.
According to the arrest report, when the owner of the car began walking to her, Finnie pointed the knife at her and lunged forward in an attempt to cut her. That woman fled the scene to call police for help.
Police said Finnie was taken into custody without incident. She reportedly confessed to authorities that she was drunk at the time of the incident.
Her actions started the chain reaction that ended with Jessica Jean, 23, and Calvin Wright, 27, shot. Jean was hit in the head, Wright in the chest and left arm. Both were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital. Wright has since been released.
King's father Santonio went ducking for cover, he said, after he heard about 20 shots.
Finnie said she knows the man and woman who fled after the shooting and who police are looking for.
"His name is Mike," she said. "He has dreads. And he drives a black jeep truck."
"I guess Calvin and his girl were at the wrong place at the wrong time and I do apologize for what happened to them," said Finnie. "But there should not have been shooting out there because there were children around."
Earlier in the day, in a strong case of irony, Finnie said she hopes that the two people that the police are looking for will turn themselves in.
"They need to turn themselves in. Ya'll, you started the shooting, I don't know the boy who shot back but by you started the shooting and if you didn't shoot, no shots would have been fired."
Fed up with the endless violence in the complex, Carter said that he is moving out of the neighborhood. His son died after he was caught in the crossfire after a trio of teens went to the apartment complex to settle and online feud.
Carter told D'Oench that he and his wife were looking for alternative housing and hoped to move out by Friday.
Other neighbors said they too hoped they could move but there are challenges for them.
Two residents who did not want to provide their names said there financial obstacles.
One woman said, "I don't have any money."
Carter's death sparked rallies and protests in South Florida, calling for an end to violence that keeps claiming the lives of teens and children in Miami-Dade County.
Miami-Dade Police say they do not have a motive or a description of the suspects.
Anyone with information should call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at (305) 471-TIPS (8477).
