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Prosecutors To Review Whether Deadly Police Shootout Was Justified Or A Crime

CHARLES TRAINOR JR.
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MIAMI HERALD
A UPS delivery truck carjacked after a robbery in Coral Gables ended up at the center of a shooting at Flamingo Road and Miramar Parkway on Dec. 5, 2019.

Broward prosecutors are now in charge of reviewing whether any police officers broke the law when they fired their guns in a public shootout last week that left four people dead.

The fierce gunfight in a traffic-packed street killed a UPS driver who had been taken hostage, a commuter caught in the crossfire and the two jewelry store robbers who had led police on a wild chase.

But police haven’t yet said whose bullets killed them.

Read more at the Sun Sentinel.

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