An off-duty Miami-Dade County police officer working at Macy’s in the Falls shopping mall in Kendall Friday night shot a man who a law enforcement source says was armed with a knife.
Miami-Dade Fire Rescue medics arrived at the scene at 8:49 p.m., according to a dispatch supervisor, and took the man to Jackson South Medical at 9:03 p.m.
The extent of his injuries was not immediately known.
According to a police source, the officer was working at Macy’s in uniform when he saw the man shoplifting an item. The man pulled out a knife when the officer confronted him, the source said, and the officer shot him.
This is the second mall shooting in South Florida in less than a week. Last Saturday, five people were wounded in a shooting at the Aventura Mall after an argument between two groups of people turned violent.