Police make arrest in teen's shooting

MIAMI (WSVN) -- Police have arrested the alleged gunman who critically injured a teen as he walked home from school.

Friday, detectives arrested 18-year-old Terry Joseph Darling. He stands charged with one count of attempted first degree murder and three counts of aggravated assault.

According to City of Miami Police, witness statements lead them to Darling. According to the witnesses, Darling drive by them in a green four-door Nissan Maxima. Witnesses said the vehicle then made a U-turn and drove back towards them, stopping at the corner. Darling, then, witness said, extended his body out of the driver's side window and fired six shots across the roof of the vehicle at the witnesses and the victim, who were walking south on the west side of Northwest 10th Avenue on the sidewalk. The shooter then sped away.

Police said, the 17-year-old victim was walking home from Miami Northwestern Senior High School with that group, along 10th Avenue, near 62nd Street, Thursday afternoon. "This hurts me to my heart to hear these kids out here shooting one another," said Robert Lee. "Why don't you go out here, old school and fight? You don't gotta pick up no gun."

Friday afternoon, the victim, who relatives identified as Brandon Allen, remains in critical condition at Jackson Memorial Hospital with a bullet wound to his neck. "We know when Brandon was brought here, he was still talking, he was alert and he was stable," said Valentina Brown, the victim's sister. "He said a boy pulled up from the corner and started shooting. We just know who he is from school."

None of the other people Allen was walking with were hit.

The victim's stepfather said he did not know why anyone would target Allen. "I don't know what provoked it or nothing," said the stepfather, only identified as "Lee." "The only thing I know is a car came up and started shooting into a crowd of kids."

Meanwhile, family worry about the teen's condition. "They're really not telling me what I want to hear, that my child is going to be OK," said Elizabeth Allen, the victim's mom, "or that maybe I'm at home sleeping, and it's a dream, but it's not."

"The last thing I need to see is me going to a funeral for my own blood," said India Allen. "I don't think I'm going to be able to handle it."

The teen's brother said Allen would have come to him if he was having problems with someone at school. "He would normally come talk to us, either me or another brother over there," said Willie Calhoun.

David Jenkins was also at the scene remembering how his own 9-year-old daughter, Sherdavia, was killed nearby from a stray bullet as she played outside her home in 2006. He said he is tired of the senseless shootings. "To me, you're just perpetrating yourself as a punk, straight up, a coward," he said.

Police continue to investigate this incident.

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