Miami-Dade Commissioner Calls for Public Meeting Over Police Shooting

CUTLER BAY — Miami-Dade Commissioner Dennis C. Moss has organized a community meeting for Tuesday night to better understand the facts surrounding last week's police shooting death of 21-year-old Jamar Rollins.

Community members were calling for demonstrations ahead of the 7 p.m. meeting at Sweet Home Missionary Baptist church, 10701 SW 184th St, Cutler Bay. Some witnesses told a local television news crew that Rollins had his hands up with he was shot.

Two veteran Miami-Dade police officers were involved in the Friday night chase that ended in the death of Rollins in the 10000 block of W Indigo Street in Miami.

Police did not identify either of the officers involved in the incident as of Tuesday afternoon. Neither officer was injured.

Miami-Dade police said the incident occurred at 6:41 p.m when the officers — both nine-year veterans of the force — came across a black Nissan Altima they said was driving erratically through the neighborhood of mostly single-family homes.

"Officers attempted to stop the vehicle at the above location, when the passenger, exited the vehicle and began to flee," Detective Robin Pinkard of the Miami-Dade Police Department said on Saturday. "One officer began to pursue the passenger on foot when he encountered the driver, which was armed with a firearm, and shots were fired."

The passenger managed to elude officers and was still at large on Tuesday. Miami-Dade police said only that he was also African-American.

Rollins was pronounced dead at the scene by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Miami-Dade police said that both officers were white. It was not clear which of the officers fired at the suspect or if both fired.

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement (FDLE) is investigating the shooting. The FDLE investigates all shootings involving Miami-Dade Police Department officers.