Miami woman arrested in beating, kidnapping of victim found shot on I-195

A Miami Gardens pistillate has been arrested and accused of attempted execution and kidnapping astir a period aft different pistillate was recovered with aggregate gunshot wounds connected Interstate 195 successful Miami Beach, officials said Wednesday.

Latifah Mercedes Green, 33, is accused of being portion of a radical that carried retired the vicious beating of a pistillate victim, who was past held successful a car for implicit an hour, dragged to the broadside of the Julia Tuttle Causeway and changeable 3 times, authorities said.

The indecent unfolded successful the aboriginal hours of Sept. 10, NBC Miami reported. According to the apprehension report, Green and a radical of unnamed co-defendants arrived astatine a residence successful Miami Gardens, wherever a person of the unfortunate lived, conscionable earlier 2 a.m.

After asking for the unfortunate by name, the radical confronted her astir drugs, wealth and a stolen gun, according to officials. The unfortunate denied immoderate engagement and closed the door.

The radical past returned with astatine slightest 3 different men and forced their mode into the residence, constabulary said, according to section presumption WPLG.

One of the men, who was armed, accused the unfortunate of stealing a weapon from him. After asking the unfortunate wherever the missing weapon was, helium became convulsive and deed her “several times” successful the look with some a weapon and his fists.

He past handed the weapon to different man, who utilized it to proceed the beating.

Green besides joined in, hitting the unfortunate implicit the caput with a vessel of Tequila, the Miami Herald reported.

The unfortunate was past “dragged retired of the location by her hair” and forced into a Ford F-150.

According to police, she directed the radical to her father’s home, falsely claiming helium had the gun, successful a hopeless effort to flight her attackers.

But erstwhile the begetter denied immoderate cognition of the missing gun, the radical got backmost successful the car and drove the unfortunate to the causeway that connects Midtown Miami and Miami Beach.

Shortly aft 3 a.m., they stopped connected the road and dragged the unfortunate retired of the car, past changeable her 3 times and fled the scene. She managed to locomotion on the causeway looking for help, and a passerby yet spotted her and called constabulary astatine astir 3:45 a.m.

The unfortunate was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center successful captious condition, but remarkably survived.

Two days aft the incident, she told investigators she knew each of the alleged assailants, but for Green.

Green, who denies being contiguous for the shooting, was arrested Tuesday and faces charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and location invasion.

She’s being held astatine the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center and her enslaved has yet to beryllium determined.

Several suspects stay astatine large, officials said.