An emotional mother mourned her son after the 23-year-old was shot and killed just blocks away from his home in Homestead. NBC6’s Laura Rodriguez reports
A man was killed and a teen girl was grazed by a bullet after gunfire erupted in a Homestead neighborhood Monday night, police said.
The shooting happened shortly before 9 p.m. in the area of the 600 block of Southwest 8th Street when Homestead Police responded to a ShotSpotter gunshot alert.
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Officers found the man shot and a 16-year-old girl who'd been grazed.
The man was pronounced dead at the scene. Family members identified him as 23-year-old Brendan Francois.
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"He got shot," his mother, Yvelouse Chery, sobbed as she visited the site where he was killed. "They killed my son in the head."
Minutes before the shooting, Francois brought the teen home to meet his family, his mother said. They then left to go to a neighborhood store, and Francois was shot while walking.
“Somebody told me they saw the car turn, two guys got out the car, and then they shot him right there," Chery said.
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This is not the first time this family has been affected by gun violence. Chery’s husband was shot and killed in 2019, just blocks away from where her son was murdered.
“I want justice for my son. Everybody knows who he is. He’s a sweetheart," his mother Yvelouse Chery said. "He always says hi to everybody, he loves everybody."
Miami-Dade Police homicide detectives took over the investigation.
