Four people were killed on Thursday during a televised shootout on a traffic-choked roadway outside Miami after an attempt to rob a jewelry store ended in the hijacking of a UPS truck, the kidnapping of its driver and a police chase across two densely populated South Florida counties. The exchange of gunfire in Miramar, Fla., killed the UPS driver as well as the two carjackers who kidnapped him, according to George Piro, the special agent in charge of the F.B.I.’s Miami field office, who spoke at a news conference on Thursday. He said the fourth person killed was a bystander. Video of the shootout, which pitted more than a dozen law enforcement officers against the carjackers, who fired from inside the stolen truck, was broadcast by television networks in South Florida and circulated widely online. The video shows occupants of other vehicles scrambling as gunfire erupts around them during the afternoon rush in Broward County.

Source: New York Times December 06, 2019 05:03 UTC