CUTLER BAY -- A gunman shot four Miami-Dade County police officers Thursday, killing one, and then fled the scene, causing a large manhunt that swept through the residential neighborhood, officials said.
Investigators were looking for a 30-year-old man identified as Kevin Wehner in connection with the shooting. Wehner was last seen driving a white Honda Accord, said Linda O'Brien, a Miami-Dade police spokeswoman. There may have been another man involved in the shooting, she said.
The officers originally stopped the man because he was driving a car erratically, O'Brien said. He then opened fire on them.
The shootings caused a large manhunt. Officers were seen on live television coverage drawing their guns as they briefly surrounded a house and then moved on. They also searched through a garbage truck as others scoured a grassy area on foot. No other details were immediately available.
Cutler Bay is a suburb southwest of downtown Miami. Several schools in the area were on lockdown due to the search. Parts of Florida's Turnpike were also shut down.
I am hearing the suspect is not a U.S. citizen and word is the suspect was also wearing a bullet proof vest, which definitely implies intent and not a spur of the moment random shooting.
More to come as news comes out.....
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