Police are investigating after a man was shot and killed early Wednesday in Coconut Grove.
Miami Police officials said they were investigating a call of a shooting at around 1:30 a.m. at 3320 Southwest 37th Avenue when they found the victim who'd been shot.
He was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he died, authorities said. His name was not released by police but family members identified him as 57-year-old Christopher Jones, a lifelong Coconut Grove resident.
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Officers and detectives were at the scene throughout the morning Wednesday, and were seen examining an Audi sedan that was closed off by yellow crime scene tape.
A bicycle was also on the ground nearby.
Friends said Jones was well known in Coconut Grove and would ride around on his bicycle.
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"I just heard that he passed, that he died, that Chris died. It saddens me, you know, a young man with so much promise to die on the street corner less than a block away from where he lives, grew up and played ball in school, it's just sad, just sad," friend Theaddeus Scott said.
Jones leaves behind a son who's a police officer in Georgia and a grandson, said his sister, who urged whoever was behind the shooting to come forward.
"Whoever you are, turn yourselves in, do it for me, his son, grandson and the family, just come, come just turn yourself in, give the family justice, please," sister Sherketa Fance said.
Police did not provide suspect information or a potential motive for the shooting but said it's an isolated incident.
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