Loved ones said a final farewell Friday to a Miami firefighter killed in a drive-by shooting in northwest Miami-Dade.
The City of Miami firefighters is a tight group and the brotherhood came out Friday to support each other at the funeral for Chadrick Davis.
"A very hard worker, always smiling, always liked to joke around with us, just never forget that laugh he had, made everyone else around him smile and laugh," firefighter Alexander Vergara said.
Davis, 32, and 22-year-old Earnest Williams were shot and killed in the drive-by shooting last weekend after attending a wake. It's the type of danger these first responders are used to but it rarely hits this close to home.
"We see it happening all the time unfortunately, we run on calls like this all the time but when it happens to one of our brothers, one of us, it completely changes everything," union president for City of Miami firefighters Freddy Delgado said.
"This is the first time in our history that a firefighter has been shot, murdered, in any type of way or from. We're a little outraged," firefighter Marcus Talams said.
Davis' death touched the firefighters he went to the academy with even more.
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"Six months of being with each other everyday, you grow a special bond with each other," Vergara said. "The whole fire department is a brotherhood but when you have a classmate, it's something special, you guys share something different and it really hits close to home."
Police are still looking for suspects in the shooting. Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.
