Police are investigating after a shooting left one man dead outside a luxury high-rise in Aventura Tuesday morning, officials said.
The shooting happened shortly before 4:30 a.m. at Turnberry on the Green located at 9501 West Country Club Drive just east of Aventura Mall.
Aventura police responded to the scene after receiving reports of a man shot and found a body lying right outside the front lobby doors.
The man's body was covered in a yellow tarp near the fountain at what appears to be the front entrance to the building.
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Police told NBC6 they are looking for someone in connection to the shooting, but that there is no threat to the community.
"I ran so fast to my car and I didn’t know where the person was, where it came from," said Melissa Ben, a resident who heard the incident. "I go to get out and I see I guess the body and they were just like go, go, go and I left. I mean, this is Aventura. You don’t expect that here. I just found out for sure that person died and we don’t know who it is."
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At this time, police have not released any information on the identity of the victim, any description on the potential suspect or what events led up to the fatal shooting.
According to Aventura Police, this incident is in no way connected to recent events in the Middle East.
