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Surveillance video shows gunmen approach Florida concert venue before shooting

By Ben Feuerherd

May 31, 2021 | 12:25pm | Updated 

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Surveillance video released by cops Monday shows three suspected gunmen hop out of a white SUV, carrying rifles and a handgun, seconds before they opened fire at a crowd outside a concert, killing two people and wounding 21 others. 

The trio of gunmen, wearing masks and hoods, emerge from the front passenger-side door, as well as the back seat, and run toward the crowd, the footage shows. 

A still image from surveillance footage shows the three gunmen exit an SUV and approach the venue before a mass shooting that injured 21 and killed two people.

Miami-Dade Police

Two of the shooters were carrying long guns while the third had a handgun, according to the footage. 

Seconds later, the three suspects scramble back to the waiting SUV, which then speeds off and turns the corner, disappearing from view of the surveillance camera, the footage shows. 

The suspects can be seen sprinting toward the venue with their weapons moments before the deadly shooting.

Miami-Dade Police

The gunmen targeted the crowd at the El Mula Banquet Hall in northwest Miami-Dade County as people gathered for a rap concert at the venue soon after midnight Sunday, police said. 

Two people were killed and more than 20 were injured as the trio of shooters sprayed the crowd with bullets. 

A father pleads with cops at the crime scene to see his son’s body after he was killed at a Miami concert.

Larry Marano

Miami-Dade Police Department Director Alfredo “Freddy” Ramirez III said the gunmen appeared to fire randomly into the crowd — but they had targeted the venue. 

“These are cold-blooded murderers that shot indiscriminately into a crowd and we will seek justice. My deepest condolences to the family of the victims,” he told CBS. 

The chief of police of the Miami Police Department, Art Acevedo, added that the shooting is part of a “scourge” of gun violence across America. 

Grandmother Betty Holder comforts Clayton Rico Dillion II after learning his son Clayton Dillard III was one of the victims at the concert shooting.

Larry Marano

“It’s just an indication of the problem we have with the scourge of gun violence in this country, that we have to do much more at the federal level to stop,” Acevedo said on CBS’s “Face the Nation.”