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Woman Arrested After Sister Accidentally Shot in Car in Miami Beach: Police

Woman on life support after Sunday night shooting on Miami Beach roadway

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The shooting happened around 8:15 p.m. in a 2019 Jaguar on the northbound Alton Road ramp from the eastbound Julia Tuttle Causeway, Miami Beach Police officials said.

A Georgia woman is on life support after she was accidentally shot in a car in Miami Beach Sunday night, and now her sister has been arrested in connection with the shooting, authorities said.

The shooting happened around 8:15 p.m. in a 2019 Jaguar on the northbound Alton Road ramp from the eastbound Julia Tuttle Causeway, Miami Beach Police officials said.

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When officers arrived, they found the victim had been shot in the head while she was a passenger in the Jaguar. She was on life support and not expected to survive, officials said.

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According to an arrest report, the victim, Dre'Naya Ponder, was one of four women who were in the Jaguar, including her sister, 24-year-old Taniyria Holt of Atlanta.

Holt told investigators that the group was recording themselves on their cell phones and Holt was using a firearm owned by one of the other women when the shooting happened, the report said.

Taniyria Holt
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Taniyria Holt

Holt "racked the firearm and observed a live round being ejected. Thinking the firearm was free of live rounds, Ms. Holt said she went to pass the firearm to [the victim] but accidentally shot her," the report said.

The report said manslaughter charges were pending against Holt, who was booked into jail on culpable negligence and improper exhibition of a firearm charges.

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