Dania Beach boy killed walking home from birthday party

Author: Associated Press
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Rasheed Cunningham Jr. (photo via CBS Miami)

DANIA BEACH, Fla. (AP) – Authorities say an 8-year-old boy was fatally shot while walking home from a birthday party near his home.

Broward Sheriff’s spokeswoman Veda Coleman-Wright tells local news outlets the shooting happened Wednesday evening in Dania Beach, adding two of the boy’s adult cousins also were shot. They were taken to hospitals and their conditions weren’t available early Thursday.

Coleman-Wright says it was the fourth shooting in the neighborhood since Christmas and added deputies believe that two of the previous incidents may be related to this one. The shooting was apparently part of some type of retaliation over another incident, CBS Miami reports.

His grandmother, whom he lived with, reportedly collapsed near the crime scene tape.

The birthday party was for a relative of the boy, but his own birthday was Jan. 9, little more than a week away.

No arrests were reported and further details weren’t immediately available. Investigators appealed to anyone with information about the shootings to contact them.

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