A mother is breaking her silence after her daughter was killed and two children were left injured in a triple shooting in northeast Miami-Dade over the weekend. NBC6’s Sophia Hernandez reports
A mother is breaking her silence after her daughter was killed and two children were left injured in a triple shooting in northeast Miami-Dade over the weekend.
After losing Desiree Chanel Brown, the family is now waiting to see Brown's 11-year-old daughter undergo numerous surgeries.
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NBC6 spoke with Brown's mother, Fannie, on Monday.
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“People say I’m a strong individual but I don’t know about this one," she said. "I am just trying to hold on.”
According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff's Office, the shooting took place on Saturday morning at Northeast 2nd Court and 141st Street.
Deputies said Brown and two children, her 11-year-old daughter, Reagan, and her boyfriend's 12-year-old son, were found inside a car with several gunshot wounds.
Fannie said she couldn't imagine a life without her only daughter.
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"Everybody loved her," Fannie said. "Beautiful, beautiful on the outside, beautiful on the inside. Everybody loved her."
Brown was a decorated Transportation Security Administration agent and died at the hospital. The two children are still fighting to stay alive.
“I don’t even know what to think right now, I am just totally lost,” Fannie said. "This was senseless, it didn’t have to happen, it didn’t have to happen at all."
TSA officials said Brown had been a TSA officer at Miami International Airport since 2023.
"We are deeply saddened to learn of her passing and send our condolences to her family, friends and colleagues," TSA officials said in a statement.
Fannie told NBC6 that last week, Brown took her 14-year-old daughter to the prom.
It's now a lifelong memory that is now the last one her three daughters will have of their mother.
“We are just going to keep praying and trusting in God that he’s going to bring all of us through this,” she said. "She’s not walking through that door so I have to cope with my granddaughters, trying to help them and still praying for the one that’s in the hospital, Reagan, but with my faith in God, trust in God, I will get through this one too."
Fannie said this is just the latest in what has been a slew of tragedies for the family. Brown's father, son and grandparents all died in tragic accidents.
She said she’s just praying now for peace and safety for the family.
"It's been tragedy after tragedy you know, but this one is really hitting home. It hurts, it hurts me really really bad," she said.
A motive for the shooting remains unknown.
