Photo: LaFrance Family / Courtesy
The population of South Florida is shocked by the tragic death of a 3-year-old boy who was shot to death on his birthday. Elijah LaFrance was buried in Miami Gardens in a very emotional ceremony attended by those closest to him.
The little one, who was celebrating his fourth birthday, was with family and other loved ones in a Northwest Miami-Dade County house last month when he was shot.
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# Events | The little boy, identified as Elijah LaFrance, was fatally shot at a birthday party in northeast Miami. https://t.co/t2bDIR6xYl
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“This was not just a shot. This was an intentional attack against people or against someone who was in this residence ”, explained the spokesman for the Miami-Dade County Police Department, Jorge Aguiar, in statements to the media.
Detective Kevin Thelwell, in charge of the investigation, explained that little Elijah was standing in front of the front door while her parents and other family members cleaned the front garden.
The family of Elijah LaFrance, a 3-year-old boy who died in Miami Dade , offered another $ 10, 000 of additional reward for information about the person who shot several times in the place where they did the children’s celebration. https://t.co/DzSiYeb7lY
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“Unknown subjects armed with several semi-automatic weapons, two of them rifles , arrived at the scene and began firing weapons of fire, “Thelwell explained through a video posted on the Miami-Dade Police Department’s social networks.
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The emergency teams, who arrived after receiving the alert of a shooting, transferred the little boy and his parents to a nearby hospital, but the doctors could do nothing to save Elijah’s life and he was pronounced dead minutes later.
# MIAMI | the family of # ElijahLaFrance , murdered 3-year-old boy at a party, they seek justice for the little one and suspect that within the birthday there was someone involved.
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Thelwell confirmed that more of 60 bullet casings.
Now we are asking for the collaboration of the population in order to gather more clues about this case. Anyone with information about this shooting should contact the authorities, who are offering a reward of $ 25, 000 for any clue that leads to the author or authors of this crime.