A person was found dead inside a burning car in a Miami-Dade Walmart parking lot, authorities said. The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office responded to the incident yesterday evening around 7:22 p.m., as flames consumed a vehicle at the corner of Southwest 136th Avenue and 288th Street, according to NBC Miami.
Witnesses at the scene reported hearing a loud explosion. “We were going to Walmart right here and we just heard like a boom, a big boom… but the car was driving, so it’s very weird for a car to explode without anything else happening after that,” one woman told NBC Miami. Despite efforts from law enforcement, the fire was eventually extinguished by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue. The identity and gender of the deceased have not been determined.
Following the discovery of the body, the Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office stated that their homicide bureau had taken over the investigation, WSVN reported. Homestead Social shared footage of the vehicle while it was still ablaze, and the intensity of the fire was apparent from the burn marks left on the ground and the shattered glass observed in the aftermath…