According to police, a Florida mother is suspected of shooting her teenage daughter at a McDonald’s after a fight.
According to court records in Miami-Dade County, the 32-year-old woman is charged with four counts of felony aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and two counts of misdemeanor battery and culpable negligence to inflict harm. She says the gun was discharged by accident.
USA TODAY got a copy of the arrest document saying that Miami-Dade police went to the McDonald’s at 9250 NW 7th Avenue in Miami just after 10 p.m. As per the court record, the shooting happened after the woman got into a fight with her 15-year-old daughter and two girl cousins.
USA TODAY tried to get in touch with the woman’s lawyer at the Miami-Dade County Public Defender’s Office on Monday but has not heard back. USA TODAY won’t name the woman to protect the teen’s privacy.
What does the mother say she did?
The statement says that one of the victims told police that the fight started when one of the cousins pointed at the door, which was facing the mother. The mother thought the cousin was pointing at her. The fight moved outside of McDonald’s when the girls got into the Lyft they had ordered, the court document said.
The mother took a gun from her car, banged on the Lyft driver’s window, and threatened to “shoot and kill” her daughter and her two cousins, according to the statement.
The statement says that she pointed the gun at the Lyft, which was slowly pulling away. The gun fired and hit her daughter in the left shoulder. Police were told that the mother had the gun on her waist and that it went off when she “accidentally fell,” the court paper said.
A surveillance video shows the mother with the gun.
The affidavit says that police watched security and phone videos of the event. They showed the woman knocking on the Lyft’s back passenger window while holding a gun.
According to the affidavit, the Lyft driver told police that the mother reached into his car and hit one of the kids. The court record also said that she pointed the gun at him and the other people in the vehicle in an “extremely aggressive” way.
Prison records show that the woman was booked at the Miami-Dade County Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Saturday morning. WPLG reported that she didn’t say anything in court on Sunday as the judge set her bond at $22,000 and told her to stay away from her daughter and two cousins.
