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Miami Beach execution spring break shooting caught on video

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Dontavious Leonard Polk Miami Beach spring break shooting
Dontavious Leonard Polk Ft Lauderdale man fatally guns down spring breaker at Miami Beach, Florida.
Dontavious Leonard Polk Miami Beach spring break shooting
Dontavious Leonard Polk Ft Lauderdale man fatally guns down spring breaker at Miami Beach, Florida.

Dontavious Leonard Polk, Fort Lauderdale, Florida man identified as Miami Beach spring break gunman who shot at revelers, killing one man. No known motive. Incident caught on video. 

When the rite of spring break includes individuals who long graduated from school. If at all and becomes a cluster f*ck. 

Surveillance video captured the execution-style killing of a bystander as sudden gunshots sent throngs of Miami spring breakers running for their lives Sunday night. The shooting which claimed the life of a male attendant marked the second deadly shooting that erupted at the popular party destination over the weekend.

Footage (see below) shows the suspected shooter walking along with throngs of other people just on 3:30 a.m. before appearing to pull a gun from his waistband and opening fire.

Startled tourists can be seen covering their heads as they seek to take cover. The victim is then seen falling to the ground as the gunman continues firing at him. The shooter then runs from the bloody scene.

Miami Beach police arrested the suspected following a foot chase, with cops identifying the gunman as 24 year old man, Dontavious Leonard Polk, from Fort Lauderdale. Polk was being held Sunday night on a first-degree murder charge. 

Career criminal

It remained unclear what led to the suspect shooting at congregants and whether he had intentionally sought to take down his victim or any victim?

The victim’s identity wasn’t immediately given with a second individual also injured in the shooting, with NBCMiami reporting that individual was expected to recover.

A post on Twitter indicated Post having a prior criminal record including attempted burglary and resistance to arrest along with ties to the to Miami-Dade State Attorneys Office.

The shooting preceded another shooting episode two days earlier, leading to the shooting death of a man died and the injuring of another upon gunshots ringing out. The sudden gunfire led to masses running in fear from restaurants and clubs into the crowded streets.

Cops found four guns at the scene and held one person, but have not shared any other details.

The violence prompted the city to enact a curfew Sunday night, prohibiting tourists and partygoers in South Beach from being out from 11:59 p.m. through 6 a.m. Monday.

Miami Beach police officers were pictured Sunday enforcing the strict curfew, which does not apply to residents, people going to and from work, emergency services and hotel guests.

Spring break the cover for unbridled mayhem

Under the rules, people must clear out of businesses by midnight. Hotels can stay open later to serve their guests, but restaurants can only make deliveries after midnight.

Some rulebreakers were also pictured Sunday night being apprehended by police at South Beach.

Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said Sunday the city was left with little choice in implementing a curfew due to the sheer number of guns and swarms of people crowding the city.

‘We don’t ask for spring break in our city,’ Gelber said.

‘We don’t want spring break in our city. It’s too rowdy, it’s too much disorder and it’s too difficult to police.’

Officials may instate another curfew Thursday through March 27, with the restrictions primarily focused on South Beach, the popular tourist spot that spring breakers love.

Commentators on social media noted the carnival environment attracted individuals beyond college, far and wide, some who harbored violent tendencies to party goers, who in the face of danger, trepidation continued to flock the location.

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