Vivian Olodun came home to a crime scene Sunday night in her 45th-floor apartment in downtown Miami. Shards of glass were scattered across her daughter’s empty chair after an apparent bullet hit partially shattered a window in her kitchen. The municipal police advised her to sleep with the curtains closed.
The marketing executive and married mother of two was at a wedding when her nanny called with the alarming report: After hearing five gunshots outside, glass shattered inside a window from the impact of the hurricane that broke, but it didn’t break. A high chair sat near the glass panel overlooking the city center, but Olodun’s two daughters, ages 2 and 3, were playing in another room.
“If the bullet had gone through the glass, it would have easily hit the high chair,” Olodun said in an interview Monday at his three-bedroom condominium in the Vizcayne South tower in the 200 block of Northeast Second Street, just steps from Biscayne Bay. . “They almost shot my baby’s high chair.”
A police spokesperson said officers responded to a call at 7.15pm on Sunday after receiving reports of several shots fired into an occupied apartment. “No injuries were reported as a result of the shooting,” said spokeswoman Officer Kiara Delva. “However, the investigation into who is responsible remains ongoing.”
Olodun, owner of Flourish Mediaa marketing agency, said officers who visited his unit told him investigators were looking for a shooter in one of the high-rises across from the Vizcayne South building.
At least one other nearby condo unit was hit by the shooting, which occurred nearly an hour before sunset. Local 10 on Monday aired a photo of a different window with a similar spider crack pattern and reported an interview with an unidentified resident of a unit on the 44th floor who said she hid under her bed with her dog after hearing gunshots.
Olodun said officers told her they did not believe her unit was a target and considered it a random act of violence. The Only in Dade Instagram account video posted taken by the family’s nanny on Olodun’s floor after the shooting, with shards of glass scattered across the high chair and toys scattered on the wooden floor next to the kitchen.
On his own Instagram account, Olodun posted a video of herself appearing as the sun rose on Monday, the glass of Sunday seemingly gone. She revealed the previous night’s shooting and added a message to her followers: “Call your loved ones today… Life is too short.”
Her final line in the eight-second video, as the morning sun reflected off the buildings behind her, asked: “Miami, what kind of city do we want to be?”
