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Published by bana2166- 02-26-07
news 3rd victim Miami Little Haiti ambush dies following blood feud between Haitian Gangs
Third victim of Miami Little Haiti ambush dies following a blood feud between Haitian Street Gangs
Posted on Mon, Feb. 26, 2007
Last month's brazen daylight ambush on a busy Little Haiti thoroughfare is now a triple murder.
Monique Jean, a hotel maid who was driving her son and his girlfriend home from court when her SUV was attacked by gunmen, has died of her wounds, Miami police said Monday.
Her son, Enel Jean, 22, and his girlfriend, Sheena Pierre, 21, died the day of the ambush.
Miami homicide detectives blame the Jan. 8 shooting on a blood feud between Haitian street gangs.
Enel Jean was a suspect in another homicide, police said, though they did not release details about that case.
''Now we have two people that were totally innocent killed for no reason,'' said Miami homicide Lt. John Buhrmaster.
Monique Jean had been in a coma at Jackson Memorial Hospital since the shooting, said her daughter, Magalie Jean. The 47-year-old grandmother died Feb. 13 and was buried Saturday.
''We're holding up OK. We're standing strong,'' Magalie Jean said Monday.
The ongoing feud between Haitian street gangs has helped fuel a spike in homicides in North Miami-Dade County during the past year.
Monique Jean had taken Pierre and Enel Jean to court for her son's hearing on a pending drug charge.
The gunmen apparently followed the green Mitsubishi Montero off Interstate 95 and east on 79th Street as it drove toward the family's El Portal home.
Miami police say a white Volvo sped up to cut off the sport utility vehicle, blocking it at Northwest Second Avenue.
A white Lincoln with tinted windows pulled up behind the SUV and gunmen emerged from the cars, spraying the SUV with dozens of rounds.
The attack came seven months after four men in a minivan were also followed from the Miami-Dade criminal courthouse and ambushed by gunmen riding in several cars. Three men died and another was wounded in that morning attack, also attributed to Haitian street gangs.
Detectives are still hunting for the killers in both ambush cases.
Anyone with information on either case can call Miami's homicide bureau at 305-579-6530 or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.
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By bana2166 on 02-26-07, 10:10 PM
news Miami Little Haiti: There is no culture of doing the right thing
Miami Little Haiti: There is no culture of doing the right thing
This weekly column is supplied by Citizens' Crime Watch of Miami-Dade and is intended to provide information that will help readers in their efforts to be safe.
Recently there have been several marches and forums to bring awareness to the community regarding the violence that we are experiencing.
For instance, the Sant La Haitian Neighborhood Center held a community forum in hope that residents would take charge of their neighborhoods. These forums are not easy to organize and I applaud Gepsie Metellus, the executive director, for her efforts.
The violence in the Haitian-American community is escalating; therefore, educating the community is extremely important. According to Police Commander David Magnusson of the Little Haiti/Upper Eastside area, overall crime is down but homicides have increased. And they will continue if we do not educate our residents on the importance of reporting actions that may lead to another homicide.
The police cannot be everywhere; they need the residents to be their ''eyes and ears.'' I know there are issues -- cultural issues -- but when do the ''cultural issues'' stop and the activism of the community start? How do we get the message across that gangs and violence do not supersede quality-of-life issues?
The week following the Sant La Haitian forum, a march was held in Liberty City, declaring, ''Enough is Enough,'' to gun violence. It was a march for peace. Here, also, we have ''cultural issues,'' such as no one wants to be known as a snitch, so the violence continues because people do not want to give information to the police.
You can chant all you want, but the bottom line is that if no one comes forward, the violence will continue.
I applaud the organizers of this Unity March Against Violence and those who marched, all 100 of them -- but shouldn't there have been a 1,000?
So we have all these marches and these forums and yet another 15-year-old was shot on the street corner of Northwest 15th Avenue and 62nd street the day after the Liberty City march. The residents sitting along Northwest 18th Avenue in lawn chairs or standing outside a market there had little to say about the incident, according to the media reports. Little to say will not stop the killings.
Recently, Miami-Dade Public Safety Director Robert Parker unveiled a program called ''Operation Community Guardian,'' an effort to help stop some of the violence. This initiative will be aided by a ''community awareness and education'' campaign. The director can put 120 police officers in the street but, without your help, they cannot accomplish their mission.
Although I have addressed the issues in the north end of our county, this problem also plagues us in other areas. I spoke to one of the crime prevention coordinators from the city of Miami who works in the Little Havana area and she, too, has great difficulties getting people to come forth in reporting crimes. Yes, there, too, lies a ''cultural'' issue, because the majority come from countries from which they bring the police-are-not-my-friend mentality.
So where do we begin? How do we begin changing these ''cultural'' obstacles? We begin with our children, by teaching them something that 17-year-old Samantha Macias said recently: ''The street is not the role model.'' She is absolutely correct. We the parents are supposed to be the role model. So let's stop these criminals by calling Crime Stoppers (305-471-TIPS).
Carmen Caldwell is the executive director of the Citizens' Crime Watch of Miami-Dade.
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