More information comes out in Homestead police shooting

Plainclothes detectives on Friday shot a person in Homestead who they believed to be shoplifting a Walgreens on US1 and Campbell. 

Police state that the detectives chased down the suspected shoplifter, who fled in a green SUV with 2 other people inside. The chase ended at a Ford dealership, where Homestead Police Department said a confrontation happened.

Captain Fernando Morales stated that one of the detectives was “forced to discharge his firearm”, shooting the driver and riddling the SUV with bullet holes.