Two Miami-Dade police officers trying to clear a Redland home of squatters were shot and injured Wednesday night after knocking on the door, police and sources said. A third officer, a female, was taken to the hospital as a precaution when blood was spotted on her.
The gunman, who hasn’t been named, was shot and killed when police returned fire. It wasn’t immediately clear how many officers fired their weapons. The two officers were shot in the arm and upper body areas, police said.
Two officers were released from the hospital Thursday, while the third remains in stable condition.
Police said the three officers were wearing protective vests that likely protected at least one of them. That’s because a fragment of buckshot fired from a shotgun at them struck a police body camera that would have been worn near the center of his body.
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