The Monroe County Sheriff’s Workplace responded to Key Largo Park at roughly 9:50 p.m. on March 8 relating to a photographs fired name.
Deputies mentioned nobody with data of the decision could possibly be situated on scene. A short while later, a 16-year-old male sufferer with a minor/grazing gunshot wound to the hand in addition to accidents to his legs from cellular phone shrapnel brought on by a bullet was handled at Mariners Hospital in Tavernier earlier than he was airlifted to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital in Miami by way of Trauma Star.
Garments matching the outline of the suspect’s garments in addition to pockets with figuring out info have been subsequently present in a close-by canal by the Sheriff’s Workplace Dive Staff.
The alleged shooter, Jonathan Enrique Valerio Paniagua, turned himself in on the Plantation Key jail on March 11 following the weekend taking pictures at Key Largo Group Park by which one other male teenager suffered non-life-threatening accidents. Valerio Paniagua, 15, of Homestead, Florida, was charged with tried homicide and aggravated battery utilizing a lethal weapon.
“I cannot tolerate violent crime on this neighborhood whatever the age of the offender,” mentioned Monroe County Sheriff Rick Ramsay. “I wish to thank the women and men of the sheriff’s workplace who labored to resolve this case shortly.”
The investigation revealed a disagreement over a lady could have preceded the incident.
Extra costs could also be pending.