FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – One man died and four others were hospitalized after an apparent shooting in Fort Lauderdale Friday night, police said. On Saturday, they identified the man who died as 33-year-old Michael McKinney.
Fort Lauderdale police have since found the vehicle used in the shooting but are still seeking the public’s help as they search for suspects.
“He was a loving father,” McKinney’s fiancee, Tarnecia Burch, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Saturday. “A fighter. He always tried his best to make things right when he messed up.”
The two had a 2-year-old son together and McKinney also had an 8-year-old daughter, she said.
Officers and the Fort Lauderdale Fire Department responded to the 2300 block of Northwest Eighth Street shortly after 7 p.m. Friday and found five men who had been shot, Det. Ali Adamson, a spokesperson for the police department, said in an email.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue took all five men to Broward Health Medical Center. McKinney was pronounced dead at the hospital and one man is in critical condition. The other three injured are expected to survive, Adamson said. Police are not releasing their identities “due to the status of the case.”
Adamson said the shooter or shooters fled before officers reached the area west of Interstate 95 between Sunrise and Sistrunk avenues. She did not provide information about the vehicle involved in the shooting, but said detectives have located it and are investigating further.
Burch said someone jumped out of a van and started shooting at McKinney, but he had no other information.
He had been in prison before, but then turned his life around and got a job, she said.
Anyone with information is asked to contact Fort Lauderdale Police immediately or provide information anonymously by contacting Broward County Crime Stoppers.
