2-year-old, mom shot in Miami
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By ANDRES AMERIKANER
aamerikaner@MiamiHerald.com
A 2-year-old boy was shot in the stomach after bullets flew at an apartment building at Northeast 64th Terrace and North Miami Court in Little Haiti around 9 p.m. Friday, according to a Miami Fire Rescue spokesman.

The child’s mother also was shot, sustaining a gunshot wound to the arm, fire department spokesman Ignatius Carroll said. Three other people were shot, too, apparently part of the same incident, according to Miami police.

”As soon as we arrived, the mother came running up and practically threw her son into the arms of a paramedic, screaming that her son had been shot,” Carroll said. “She also was bleeding.”

Paramedics took the child to Ryder Trauma Center, Carroll said. The child’s condition was undetermined, Carroll said, but added that the boy had suffered an entry bullet wound, which should be considered extremely serious for such a small child.

Three of the people made it to the hospital by their own means, said Miami police spokesman Willie Moreno. Their wounds were superficial, he said.

At the crime scene, Julia Peter of Miami Shores was waiting for her son-in-law, Ervence Auguste, to be interviewed by police. Auguste drove one of the victims to the hospital, Peter said as she waited behind the yellow tape.

”I guess he probably felt sorry for the kid,” Peter said. “He’s just trying to help out.”

A nearly three-block area was cordoned off by police as they examined three different scenes where ”multiple casings and a lot of blood” were discovered, Carroll said.

”We don’t have a motive for the shooting and we don’t have a subject description,” Moreno said. “All we have is five people shot.”