A gunman opened fire along a busy South Florida highway late Monday and sped away from the scene, leaving three men dead in another car that lost control and crashed into a nearby restaurant.
Authorities have not publicly identified the victims, nor whether it was gunfire or the collision that killed them.
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The shooting erupted about 10 p.m. Monday on State Road 7 near Southwest 37th Street in Miramar, about 25 miles north of Miami, according to reports.
Moments earlier, police said, something sparked an altercation between a white convertible Ford Mustang and another car traveling side-by-side in the southbound lanes.
Police said the still-unidentified driver pulled up alongside the Mustang and opened fire through a window.
The Mustang then careened off the road, knocked down a light pole and damaged a tinting business before coming to rest several blocks away with more than a dozen bullet holes in the driver’s side door, reports said.
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The driver and one of his passengers died at the scene while a third occupant was pronounced dead later at Memorial Regional Hospital, several reports confirmed. No casualties were reported in the restaurant or other businesses.
WPLG News 10 in Broward County reported that one of the victims jumped out of the car during the gunfire, and that the other passenger, still barely alive, crawled from the car shortly after the crash.
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Police are offering a $3,000 reward for information that leads to an arrest. So far, authorities have not named any suspects nor provided a motive or any description of the shooter’s vehicle.
Investigators kept the roadway closed for hours and were still poring over the crime scene Tuesday morning, according to NBC 6 in Miami.
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