One person was killed and two others were injured after a shooting erupted following a reported argument outside a convenience store in Liberty City Wednesday evening, fire rescue said.
The gun violence happened on Northwest 66th Street and 22nd Avenue. One person was in police custody, Miami-Dade detectives said.
The incident started after 19-year-old Demetric McCall and a woman get into a heated altercation at the nearby store. The woman threatened to call her boyfriend and the man went to his house nearby, Miami-Dade police said.
The woman's boyfriend and two other people drove to the man's home. A fight broke out between a friend of the boyfriend, who was driving the car, and McCall.
McCall's mother told NBC 6 that the man went back to the car, grabbed a gun and started shooting her son.
"I was speechless. I was froze because turned around and then he pulled the gun on me and all I could do was hide behind a little tree," Tiffany McCall said. "That's when my neighbor said 'get down'."
That neighbor went back into his home, grabbed his own gun, and opened fire on the initial shooter, who was now on his property, and the driver of the car. The shooter died at the scene while the driver was rushed to the hospital.
"I thank God for my neighbor," Tiffany McCall said. "My neighbor saved my son's life, because if he wasn't there my son would be dead."
The man who shot the three people has not been charged yet as police continue to investigate.
