LAUDERHILL – Two women were taken to the hospital after a shooting during a Jamaican Independence Day celebration in Lauderhill.
It happened around 2 a.m. in the back of Lallos restaurant,1400 N State Road 7, where a stage is set up and they often have live music.
According to Lauderhill police, officers found a crowd leaving when they arrived. They were told that a woman with a gunshot wound had been taken by a friend to HCA Florida Plantation Emergency. Police said the injury was non-life threatening and the woman was stable.
A second woman who suffered a minor injury, not from the gunfire, was also taken to HCA Florida Plantation Emergency by a friend.
Investigators are trying to determine what led to the shooting. Police said there is “known suspect(s) at this time.”
