‘Sir, I’ve been shot’: Victims in shooting in Fort Lauderdale called 911

Gunshots erupted on a Fort Lauderdale street early Saturday morning and moments later, several of the men who were struck called 911, pleading for help and for one person to be rushed to the hospital.

A shooter or shooters fired at a car in the 600 block of Northwest 62nd Street just after 5 a.m. and fled the area. Three people were found shot inside the car and were taken to Broward Health Medical Center, where one was pronounced dead.

Fort Lauderdale Police on Monday identified the person who died at the hospital as 18-year-old Marion Harrison.

A fourth adult man was found after the shooting and taken to the hospital “as a precaution,” but he was not shot. It was not known where he was found or if he was also in the car with Harrison and the others during the shooting.

Two of the men who survived remained in the hospital as of Monday afternoon, but the police department did not release their conditions or names.

One dead, three hospitalized after shooting in Fort Lauderdale street

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