An argument over ski masks ends with 3 people shot and an arrest, Miami cops say
A Wednesday shooting involving 31 shots fired and three men hit started as an argument over ski masks and a teenage boy, one of the shot men told Miami police.
That person’s account is the only one in the arrest report describing why Jesus Falu, 32, was charged with attempted murder, shooting a deadly missile and criminal mischief causing damage between $200 and $1,000.
The account of Falu, who was shot in the leg and allegedly waived his right to remain silent, is redacted. The third man involved in the shooting near Northwest 12th Street and First Avenue in Overtown had been shot in the chest and was intubated, a tube in his trachea to make sure he gets oxygen, at Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.
The report says when officers got to the area around 12:25 a.m., they found Falu under a black Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck with his tan 9mm Sig Sauer handgun. The other two men, neither of whom is named, were nearby. One had put his black 9 mm Glock on top of a nearby car. Like Falu, he’d suffered a leg wound.
That’s the man who spoke to police at the hospital and gave an account the report says is backed up by videos from a nearby surveillance camera and city of Miami Real Time Crime Center video.
He told police he and his pal “like to wear ski masks just for fashion.” They entered Arena Supermarket, 1201 NW First Pl., where Falu began criticizing them for wearing the ski masks in front of his 17-year-old son. The argument increased in intensity until Falu revealed his Sig Sauer. The two ski mask wearers left the store and began walking west on 12th Street, followed by Falu.
Falu, the report said, pulled out a gun and pointed it at the head of the unarmed ski mask wearer. The armed ski mask wearer pulled out his gun and the 9 mm bullets began flying.
