Miami police respond to shooting report. They found two people stabbed instead
Two men were arrested in connection to a double stabbing Friday morning that left two people hospitalized, according to police.
Police initially arrived at Northwest Third Court and 79th Street to respond to a report that a woman was shot. But, the officers instead found a man and a woman, both around 20 years old, with stab wounds.
Miami Fire Rescue medics took them to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Their conditions and identities were not immediately available.
Police say the people, who were not named in an arrest report, were attacked by Jimmy Pierre and Larry March, both 38, after a brief altercation in which Pierre threw a rock and hit their car.
All four people know each other, according to the report.
The report also states that the people told police that March fired a gun in the air and pointed the weapon at them.
The man and woman ran into their car, and Pierre reached inside the vehicle and started swinging a knife, first stabbing the woman in the leg and buttocks, then wounding the man, who was trying to shield the woman, according to the report.
Pierre faces attempted murder and battery charges. March was arrested on a charge of assault with a deadly weapon.
Information on bond and Pierre’s and March’s legal counsel were not immediately availabl.e
