A 17-year-old student is facing attempted second-degree murder charges in the shooting that wounded a 10-year-old boy in Homestead Saturday.
Macathy Briere, a student at Homestead Senior High School, was arrested Sunday in the shooting in the 13900 block of Southwest 280th Terrace, according to a Miami-Dade Police arrest report.
According to police and the family of 10-year-old Jamel Brown, Briere and one of Brown's brothers were involved in an argument just outside the Brown family's apartment at about 10:45 p.m. Saturday night when Briere left and returned with a handgun.
Briere fired the handgun four or five times, hitting 10-year-old Jamel Brown in the buttocks, before he fled the scene, police said.
Jamel was taken to the hospital for treatment. On Monday he was playing basketball outside his family's home and said he was feeling good.
But when the shooting happened, Jamel said he was having trouble breathing, and his mother, Felicia Day, said she was very scared and nervous.
"I thought he really (got) hit somewhere (that) probably could hurt him real bad, kill him or something," she said. "I'm real blessed because it could have been worse. He could have been dead."
Police located Briere after an investigation, and he was identified by the person he shot at, the arrest report said. He later confessed to the shooting and was taken to the Miami-Dade Juvenile Assessment Center, according to the report.
