Police say a woman in Florida is accused of shooting her teenage daughter at a McDonald’s after they got into a verbal argument.
Accused of four charges of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and misdemeanor counts of violence and culpable carelessness to inflict damage, the 32-year-old woman claims the gun was fired accidentally.
According to an arrest affidavit, soon after 10 p.m., Miami-Dade police officers arrived at the McDonald’s located at 9250 NW 7th Avenue in Miami.
According to the court filing, the shooting happened after the lady and her 15-year-old daughter and her two female relatives got into a verbal altercation.
What is said to have been done by the mother?
According to the affidavit, one of the victims informed police that the altercation started when one of the cousins gestured toward the door, which was directed at the mother, who believed she was being pointed at.
As the females boarded a Lyft they had hired, the dispute shifted outside the McDonald’s, the court complaint added.
According to the affidavit, the mother verbally threatened to “shoot and kill” her daughter and her two cousins, took a gun from her car, and started beating on the window of the Lyft car during the fight.
According to the affidavit, she was pointing the gun at the departing Lyft when it suddenly fired, hitting her daughter in the left shoulder. The court document went on to say that the mother told officers the gun was on her waistline and that it went off when she “accidentally fell.”
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On surveillance footage, a mother is seen brandishing a pistol.
According to the affidavit, police viewed CCTV and phone footage of the event, which showed the lady knocking on the Lyft’s rear passenger window while brandishing a revolver.
According to the affidavit, the Lyft driver reported to the police that the mother had physically abused one of the cousins by reaching into his car. The court statement went on to say that she was “extremely aggressive” in pointing the gun at him and the other passengers.
The woman was arrested on Saturday morning at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center in Miami-Dade County, according to inmate records. A judge put her bond at $22,000 and told her to avoid her daughter and two relatives, but she stayed silent in court on Sunday, according to WPLG.
