MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. — Three teenagers were injured Friday afternoon in a drive-by shooting near a Florida high school, according to multiple reports.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools spokesman John Schuster told WPLG that two of the injured people are ninth-graders at Carol City Senior High School in Miami Gardens. Miami Gardens police spokeswoman Petula Burks told the news station the victims were boys: two 15-year-olds and a 14-year-old.
Police told WSVN that they were shot in the legs around 3 p.m. in a drive-by shooting near Carol City High School.
Their injuries did not appear to be life-threatening, WPLG reported. Authorities told the news station that the shooter was in a small white SUV but did not provide additional identifying information.
The shooting prompted lockdowns at three area schools. The lockdowns were lifted at 4:20 p.m.
Lockdowns have been lifted at all three schools - @CarolCitySr1 @CCMSChiefs and @BHEHornets
— Miami-Dade Schools (@MDCPS) February 10, 2017
The drive-by shooting was reported just hours after someone opened fire on a van carrying schoolchildren in northwest Miami-Dade, WTVJ reported. No students were injured.
Miami-Dade County Public Schools superintendent Alberto Carvalho took to Twitter to denounce the shootings and call for residents to "stand together to stop this violence."
2 shootings, just hours apart, a block away from schools. We must stand together to stop this violence. Our children deserve better. #Enough
— Alberto M. Carvalho (@MiamiSup) February 10, 2017
"Our children deserve better," he wrote.
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