Victim identified in Fort Lauderdale drive-by shooting that left 1 dead, 4 injured

FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — One man died and four others were hospitalized after an apparent drive-by shooting in Fort Lauderdale Friday evening, police said. On Saturday, they identified the deceased man as 33-year-old Michael McKinney.

Fort Lauderdale police have since found the vehicle used in the shooting, but they are still asking for the public's help in searching for suspects.

“He was a loving father,” McKinney’s fiancée, Tarnecia Burch, told the South Florida Sun Sentinel on Saturday. “A fighter. He always did his best to make things right when he had done wrong.

The two had a 2-year-old son together, and McKinney also had an 8-year-old daughter, she said.

Fort Lauderdale officers and firefighters responded to the 2300 block of Eighth Street Northwest shortly after 7 p.m. Friday and found five men who had been shot, said Det. Ali Adamson, a police department spokesperson, said in an email.

Fort Lauderdale firefighters took all five men to Broward Health Medical Center. McKinney was pronounced dead at the hospital and one man is in critical condition. The other three injured are expected to survive, Adamson said. Police are not releasing their identities “due to the status of the case.”

Adamson said the shooter or shooters fled before officers arrived in the area west of Interstate 95 between Sunrise and Sistrunk boulevards. She did not provide information about the vehicle involved in the shooting, but said detectives have located it and are investigating further.

Burch said someone jumped out of a van and started shooting at McKinney, but had no further information.

He had previously been in prison, but then turned his life around and got a job, she said.

Anyone with information should contact Fort Lauderdale Police immediately or provide information anonymously by contacting Broward County Crime Stoppers.