A 17-year-old suspect has been arrested in the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl in Fort Lauderdale earlier this month, police said.
The teen was arrested on first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in the Feb. 17 shooting that claimed the life of Tanaejah Atterbury, Fort Lauderdale Police officials said.
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Witnesses and Atterbury's family said several people had been involved in two fights on Northwest 8th Avenue when someone pulled out a gun and started shooting.
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In 911 calls released by police on Tuesday, people can be heard screaming moments after the gunfire rang out.
"Oh my God, oh my God! I need an ambulance on 8th Avenue please," one caller says. "There was a fight that broke out and somebody got shot."
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Atterbury, who was standing in the area watching, was hit by the gunfire. She later died at the hospital.
"All I thought, my baby, was they hit her, but when I picked her up, I saw the blood, and she said, 'Mommy, I'm OK, I'm OK,'" mother Shraday Heller said. “As a mother, I had to see my child bleeding, and that hurts me.”
Police said the teen suspect was arrested by their Fugitive Unit.
