Loved ones gather for funeral of 6-year-old killed by gunfire as search continues for shooter
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Two weeks have passed, and the shooter remains at large.
6-year-old Chassidy Saunders was fatally shot while playing at the party, along with two other people who were attending.
It happened near Northwest 54th Street and 6th Place in Miami.
Family and friends gathered at the Peaceful Zion Missionary Baptist Church to lay Chassidy to rest.
Her kindergarten teacher spoke over the child’s pink and white casket, with her favorite Disney character Elsa, and remembering the smile and work ethic of her student who was so full of life.
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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Hours after the Florida Department of Law Enforcement issued an Amber Alert on Friday, detectives reported finding two girls, ages 12 and 13, who had vanished on Monday in south Miami-Dade County.
According to Detective Lee Cowart, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, detectives found the girls unharmed at a friend’s house. Belinda Wright, one of the girl’s grandmother, said she was overjoyed to learn detectives found her.
“I want to thank the community for coming together,” Wright said about the many volunteers who helped to search for the girls for about five days. “I feel very wonderful because a lot of kids don’t make it back.”
Reward up to $7,000 for information about woman’s shooting last year on I-95
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MIAMI, Fla. – A $7,000 reward to help find the person responsible for a woman’s death a year ago was announced Wednesday.
Melissa Gonzalez was 22-years-old when she was shot and would have been 24 Wednesday. She was driving on Interstate 95 on Jan. 3 when she was struck by a stray bullet.
Her mother, Sheilla Nunez said the pain of losing her daughter remains as searing as the moment she learned from police that Gonzalez was dead.
Gonzalez’s boyfriend, identified by troopers as Julian Veliz Cortina, 26, was also in the car and heard a gunshot. He said he looked over and saw she had been hurt.
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“We know people were there that night. I know for a fact at least two people were there. I don’t know why what happened happened. I don’t know why Melissa was shot. It could have very well been an accident. I don’t know but unless somebody calls me, and gives me something I’m never gonna know, Det. Juan Segovia said.
According to Gonzalez s family, she had graduated from Florida International University in the summer of 2018 and had plans of going to law school. Her mother said she was set to take the LSAT a few weeks before she was killed.