The chief of public security for Miami-Dade County, Fla., was critically wounded late on Sunday and was hospitalized in Tampa, the mayor of the county mentioned on Monday. The damage was attributable to a self-inflicted gunshot, in response to two folks with information of what occurred.
Alfredo Ramirez III, who serves in a twin function as public security chief and because the director of the Miami-Dade Police Division, the biggest police division within the Southeast, was in “essential however secure situation” on Monday, Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said in a statement. Her workplace mentioned that she traveled to Tampa in a single day to to be with the chief’s household. The police division mentioned Chief Ramirez underwent surgical procedure there.
“All that issues proper now’s Chief Ramirez’s well-being,” Ms. Levine Cava mentioned, “and I be a part of his household, his family members, and all of his Miami-Dade Police Division and Miami-Dade County household in praying for his swift restoration.”
Chief Ramirez, 52, who is named Freddy, suffered the damage on Interstate 75 south of Tampa, in response to the Florida Division of Regulation Enforcement, which is investigating the incident together with the Florida Freeway Patrol. Nobody else was injured, the F.D.L.E. mentioned in a press release.