By Charles Rabin
Miami Herald
OPA-LOCKA, Fla. — Two Opa-locka police officers shot and killed a man after he broke the windshield of a patrol car and refused to obey orders, an Opa-locka city official said.
City spokesman David Chiverton said the shooting happened just after 3 a.m. at Northwest 135th Street and Sesame Street. One officer was injured and taken to the hospital. The injury is non-life threatening.
Chiverton said police officers tried to control the man, but couldn’t and used a Taser before shooting him.
The shooting will be investigated by Miami-Dade police.
The shooting death by a police officer is the second in as many days and the seventh police-involved shooting since Friday night when an officer felt his life was being threatened by the driver of a moving vehicle and fired at it. Bullets struck three teenagers riding inside a stolen unmarked police truck. Five of the seven shooting victims have survived.
Five of the seven shootings have been by Miami-Dade police officers. The others were in South Miami and now Opa-locka.
Northwest 135th Street between 32nd and 37th avenues was closed Wednesday morning as police investigated.
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