it’s an upscale clothing outlet but in
1979 what happens in this spot signals a
new era in organized crime that will
last nearly 20 years it’s Wednesday July
11th 1979 a sudden burst of gunfire
shatters a sultry afternoon
you had occurred at about 2:30 this
afternoon when two or more Latin males
entered the crown liquor store here on
the west end of the date land mall they
were followed by two or three other
Latin males and then the shooting began
they came prepared to to do battle two
men lie dead on the liquor store floor
but what happens next is off the radar
of organized crime in Miami the hitmen
exit the liquor store and turn their
guns on the public
can recall hearing the call being
dispatched is a machine gun in the
Dadeland shopping mall detective al
singleton is one of the first cups to
arrive on the scene the gunman who fled
but they have left behind a scene of
carnage even the veterans were shocked
by what they saw that met whoever’s
behind it it’s not the Mathew the Mafia
are not active in Miami but even if they
were shooting civilians is not there
Stein we were used to organized crime
hits they weren’t that often in Miami
but they did occur but in those cases if
there was an intended target that person
would be selectively chosen and killed
and that would be it
you wouldn’t just indiscriminately kill
witnesses that were just happen to be
the wrong place at the wrong time and
then the cops make another discovery the
killers used this customized armored war
wagon the getaway van was then dumped in
the malls north parking lot inside were
several rifles pistols and shotguns some
ammunition and flak vests they used this
1978 Ford Econoline van and then had
been reinforced with stainless steel to
make it bulletproof
with two dead two wounded and a
swat-style mobile arsenal the media
begin to call it the Dadeland Mall
massacre Miami has never seen anything
like it but it’s only the start of a
terrifying decade Dave land now set the
mark we had never encountered any County
violence like that in the face of the
killer’s firepower the cops begin to
upgrade their own weaponry when you
recover 14 weapons used by contract
killers you realize that the
standard-issue police 38 who’s was a
poor countermeasure to that kind of
firepower so
1979 what happens in this spot signals a
new era in organized crime that will
last nearly 20 years it’s Wednesday July
11th 1979 a sudden burst of gunfire
shatters a sultry afternoon
you had occurred at about 2:30 this
afternoon when two or more Latin males
entered the crown liquor store here on
the west end of the date land mall they
were followed by two or three other
Latin males and then the shooting began
they came prepared to to do battle two
men lie dead on the liquor store floor
but what happens next is off the radar
of organized crime in Miami the hitmen
exit the liquor store and turn their
guns on the public
can recall hearing the call being
dispatched is a machine gun in the
Dadeland shopping mall detective al
singleton is one of the first cups to
arrive on the scene the gunman who fled
but they have left behind a scene of
carnage even the veterans were shocked
by what they saw that met whoever’s
behind it it’s not the Mathew the Mafia
are not active in Miami but even if they
were shooting civilians is not there
Stein we were used to organized crime
hits they weren’t that often in Miami
but they did occur but in those cases if
there was an intended target that person
would be selectively chosen and killed
and that would be it
you wouldn’t just indiscriminately kill
witnesses that were just happen to be
the wrong place at the wrong time and
then the cops make another discovery the
killers used this customized armored war
wagon the getaway van was then dumped in
the malls north parking lot inside were
several rifles pistols and shotguns some
ammunition and flak vests they used this
1978 Ford Econoline van and then had
been reinforced with stainless steel to
make it bulletproof
with two dead two wounded and a
swat-style mobile arsenal the media
begin to call it the Dadeland Mall
massacre Miami has never seen anything
like it but it’s only the start of a
terrifying decade Dave land now set the
mark we had never encountered any County
violence like that in the face of the
killer’s firepower the cops begin to
upgrade their own weaponry when you
recover 14 weapons used by contract
killers you realize that the
standard-issue police 38 who’s was a
poor countermeasure to that kind of
firepower so
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