Surveillance video shows masked suspects who police say opened fire outside Florida concert

By Amir Vera, Holly Yan and Laura James, CNN

Miami-Dade Police released surveillance video that shows three masked suspects who they say opened fire at a crowd outside a concert venue in southern Florida on Sunday, leaving at least 23 people shot and two dead.

The shooting stemmed from an ongoing rivalry between two different groups, Miami-Dade Homicide Bureau Maj. Jorge Aguiar said Monday. The intended target was believed to have been standing in front of the concert venue when the shooting began, he said.

Police have not detailed the identities of the shooters or victims in what is one of the largest mass shootings in Miami-Dade County’s history. There have been 41 homicides in the county this year as of May 23, the same amount as at this point in 2020, according to Miami-Dade Police Department data.

Here’s what we know about the shooting:

Shooters fired into a crowd

Shortly after midnight Sunday, a white Nissan Pathfinder pulled up to the El Mula Banquet Hall near Hialeah, police director Alfredo Ramirez III said.

That’s when three people “stepped out of the vehicle with assault rifles and handguns and started firing indiscriminately into the crowd,” Ramirez said.

Several others in the parking lot then armed themselves and opened fire toward the initial shooters, Aguiar said. The end result was an extensive crime scene with two dead and 23 people wounded, including three with critical injuries, Aguiar said.

Surveillance video released by police shows the white vehicle come to a stop in an alley near the venue. Three armed people, all dressed in black, wearing face coverings and with their hoods over their heads, then exit the car and run off-screen. Less than 10 seconds later, the video shows them run back to the vehicle and hop in as the driver quickly leaves the scene.

Ramirez said Sunday the shooting at the club was “targeted” and was “definitely not random.”

The white Nissan Pathfinder had been waiting in the parking lot for 20-40 minutes before the shooting, he said Monday.

TV personality and Camping World CEO Marcus Lemonis is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for the mass shooting, the businessman tweeted Sunday.

Ramirez tweeted later that the Miami division of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives had added an additional $25,000 to Lemonis’ reward, bringing it to $125,000.

Shooting left two dead

The wounded were taken to various hospitals in the area.

Five victims were taken to Memorial Regional Hospital in Hollywood, Florida, and two of them are in critical condition, according to hospital spokesperson Kerting Baldwin.

The banquet hall and billiards club had been rented out for a concert Saturday night, Ramirez said. A Facebook page for the establishment shows it hosts parties and happy hour events as well.

Aguiar called this weekend’s shooting a senseless act of violence.

“For you guys out there — if you are watching this and you are responsible for this — look at those victims that you don’t take into account, those victims are hurting, they’re destroyed, their lives are turned upside down,” he said.

CNN’s Tina Burnside, Eric Levenson and Raja Razek contributed to this report.