Florida strip club security officer fatally shoots woman firing at him
MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. November 3 2023– A heated argument between a group and a strip club security guard has left one woman fatally shot in northwest Miami-Dade early Friday morning.
Police investigators said that during the argument, she fired at a security guard from the back seat of a car. The group she was with was involved in a “heated dispute” inside a strip club, investigators confirmed.
According to Miami-Dade police, the group had gotten into an argument with a security guard at the Climax strip club, located in the area of Northwest 27th Avenue and 102nd Street.
Police confirmed that the argument spilled out into the parking lot at which time the woman went to a vehicle, retrieved a gun, and fired at the security guard from the backseat.
The security guard shot back, killing the woman, authorities confirmed.
The driver then drove away and parked in the area of Northwest 27th Avenue and 103rd Street, police said.
The woman, whose identity has not yet been released, was pronounced dead at the scene.
“I got a call early this morning, around 4 a.m., from my niece and she told me that my daughter was shot,” Brenda Dawson told Local 10′s Joseph Ojo.
Dawson and other family members rushed to the scene after receiving the news.
“I called every hospital, I called the police station — no one could give me answers,” she said.
A yellow tarp would later cover the windshield of the car as homicide investigators worked on the scene. Bullet holes could be seen in the car.
“They told me the backseat — the young lady in the backseat was my daughter,” Dawson said. “And they said that she was shot and now she is dead.”
The shooting investigation led to several streets being blocked off in the area. Police used road safety flares and diverted traffic to side streets along Northwest 27th Avenue.
“And she has two beautiful children,” Dawson said. “Lord God, what (am I) going to tell those kids? I don’t know what I’m going to do. I don’t know what I’m going to do.”
Police said another vehicle involved in the incident fled the scene.
Further details about the initial altercation were not immediately released.
