MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A 50-year-old man is facing a charge of second-degree murder in connection with a shooting that occurred in southwest Miami-Dade earlier this year, authorities confirmed Thursday.
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According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to the area of Southwest 173rd Street and Homestead Avenue around 4:46 p.m. on April 30 following reports of a man shot.
When deputies arrived, they found an unresponsive man lying in the roadway with multiple gunshot wounds to his upper body.
Authorities said the victim was taken to a local hospital by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, where he later died from his injuries.
According to an arrest report, a witness said he met with the victim around 2:15 p.m. near West Evergreen Street and Southwest 99th Road, where the victim was sitting alone on a milk crate when he arrived.
A short time later, deputies said the witness observed McQueen sitting inside a gray four-door sedan parked on the swale just a few feet away.
The witness told detectives he and the victim were drinking beers together when a woman approached and began flirting and hugging the victim, according to the report.
That’s when deputies say McQueen reportedly exited his vehicle twice and walked past the group before urinating in an open field across the street.
The witness said he told the victim he was “feeling like a third wheel” when he went to the store to buy more beer, investigators wrote in the report.
But before the witness could leave, deputies said McQueen walked over to the driver’s side of his vehicle, retrieved a black handgun, cocked it, and said to the victim, “Some things you ain’t supposed to touch.”
They said the suspect then shot the victim approximately four times.
The unidentified woman remained on the milk crate and screamed, while the witness said he grabbed his bicycle and fled southbound on Southwest 99th Road, according to authorities.
Investigators said they presented the witness with a standard Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office photo lineup, and he identified McQueen as the shooter.
U.S. Marshals with the Florida/Caribbean Regional Fugitive Task Force said they located and arrested McQueen in Jacksonville on June 6.
McQueen was initially booked into the John E. Goode Pre-Trial Detention Facility in Jacksonville and later extradited to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center, where he was being held without bond as of Thursday afternoon.
A motive for the shooting remains unclear at this time.
