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One Injured In North Miami Police Involved Shooting

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MIAMI (CBSMiami) – Authorities are investigating a police involved shooting in North Miami that left one person injured.

"Officers responded to the scene in emergency mode in reference to a man with a gun," said North Miami Police Department Officer Natalie Buissereth.

Officers were called to NE 128th Street and 14th Avenue Monday afternoon.

"They're met by two people minimum. There were at least two people at the scene at the time and they fired," said Buissereth.

A man who's the president of a nearby group home for people with mental disabilities says the person shot is his employee and the person who was with him lives at the group home.

"To our understanding the individual who lives here was walking down the street with a toy in his hand and someone called the police saying someone had a weapon," said Miami Achievement Center for the Developmentally Disabled President Clint Bower.  "Somehow or another somebody got shot who was my employee.  The individual who lives in the house ended up sitting in the police car for two and a half hours in handcuffs."

Bower says the man who lives at the group home was held by police and released.

"He happens to be 24 years old," said Bower.  "He's autistic, non-verbal so the police couldn't get anything out of him because he can't speak."

When asked if police recovered a weapon at the scene, Buissereth said, "They're still collecting evidence right now."

Police have not released the name of the man who was shot or given any information about the man who was questioned.

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