Crime & Safety

‘Put The Guns Down': Cousin Furious After 8-Year-Old Opa-Locka Boy Wounded In Crossfire

An 8-year-old Opa-Locka boy who was wounded in a crossfire between two people on Saturday afternoon is speaking out about guns.

September 14, 2021

An 8-year-old Opa-Locka boy who was wounded in a crossfire between two people on Saturday afternoon is speaking out, saying he is recovering and hopes the criminals will be caught.

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Mauri Robinson was playing with friends near his apartment at 220 Dunad Avenue at 1:30 Saturday afternoon when he and his loved ones say a bullet from the crossfire struck him and went through his buttocks.

The child was rushed to the Ryder Trauma Center and then released this weekend. A photograph shows him waving after he was released from Jackson Memorial Hospital.

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