Arrest Made After Two Found Dead In SW Dade Gas Station Shooting
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MIAMI (CBSMiami) - Two people are dead after a shooting at southwest Miami-Dade gas station.
Thursday afternoon, Miami-Dade Police announced that 44-year-old Oscar Blanco had been arrested.
According to investigators, Blanco was having an ongoing family dispute with the female victim, identified as 44-year-old Roxana Llorens.
Police say Blanco drove his Ford F-150 truck to a gas station and pulled up next to a white BMW sedan belonging to 55-year-old Randall Browning. Llorens was a passenger in Browning's car.
That's when police say Blanco fired multiple shots into the BMW, hitting both Browning and Llorens.
It happened just after midnight at a Chevron gas station on Bird Road at Southwest 117th Avenue.
According to a police report, after the shooting Blanco walked into the gas station and asked the clerk to call the police.
He then walked back to his truck, placed the rifle on the driver's seat and waited for officers to arrive, per the report.
When Miami-Dade police arrived, they found both victims shot inside the BMW.
Browning was dead and Llorens was taken to Kendall Regional Medical Center, which is right next door to the gas station, where she died.
Police initially said a rifle was used in the shooting.
On Thursday, police said the rifle was found in Blanco's truck.
Police evidence markers indicate at least a half dozen shots were fired. The noise was so loud they frightened the people who live across the street.
"It sounded like it repeated bang, bang, bang, bang, bang, it was very loud. At first, I thought it was construction work but then I knew they were gunshots, it was horrifying," said Grace Mbuyi. "I just ran to my uncle's room. I was in the living room watching TV and just ducked to the floor and ran to my uncle's room, shaking."
Mbuyi said she was scared but her uncle just dismissed it.
"He was like it's not gunshots, it has to be construction, but I was like shaking for 30 minutes afterward," she said.
Three vehicles were towed from the scene.
Mabilin Beltrán, who lives across the street from the gas station, also heard the shots.
Beltran said, "I was watching TV with my husband when I heard the shots one right after another. I told my husband what is this and I was in panic. I could not sleep until 3 this morning. We are living in though time and people are just taking justice in to their own hands and I don't think there is a reason for this."
"So many gunshots after the other one, like pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, pow, so many, like 10, 10 shots," she said. "It was scary, we're supposed to be in a safe country, and I love this country but, I don't know, people get out of control with guns. I don't think it's necessary to kill another person because you destroy their life, you don't know if they have kids. So it's kind of awful."
"It's heartbreaking, that's why she's so close to the hospital, so she's in a neighborhood that's deemed very safe. It makes me worried about going to that gas station late at night," said Mbuyi. "I've done it before after leaving campus but now I am definitely going to think twice."
Miami-Dade police said this was not random and all three people knew each other.
