Florida High School Student Johnny Lubin Jr, 15, Shot Dead While Walking Home From School

A 15-year-old freshman at Miami Northwestern Senior High School died Wednesday during surgery after he was gunned down while walking home from school, according to CBS News. As Johnny Lubin Jr. was walking “near the corner of Northwest 77th Street and 14th Avenue,” an unidentified vehicle pulled up next to him and shots were fire.

Jennifer Capote with the Miami-Dade Police Department stated that it is unclear if the shots came from someone inside of the vehicle or another pedestrian, but “we do know a vehicle approached the juvenile when the shots were fired.” It wasn’t immediately clear how many shots were fired, but police officials say the former middle school prom king was shot once in the head and once in the abdomen. Lubin was rushed to Ryder’s Trauma Center, where he died while undergoing surgery.

Johnny Lubin, Jr. shot dead walking home from school – https://t.co/gOb9zGMFsf 4th student from same school to die. Why?

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“Words can’t even describe this feeling right now,” said the teen’s mother, Julie Examar, after learning of her son’s tragic death while at work. She went on to say that “They need to stop all this foolishness, killing innocent teenagers for no reason. I don’t know what’s going on. I don’t know what happened. But it didn’t need to happen this way. And “the person who did this, they need to come forward,” she added.

According to the Miami Herald, an investigation has been launched following the shooting death of the Northwestern Senior High School student, but police officials have yet to find a motive. Family and friends of Lubin stated that he was popular and didn’t know of anyone who would want to harm him. His mother stated that Lubin was a “very outgoing kid. He loved to play football. Everybody loved him.”

Since the shooting, the Principal at Miami Northwestern Senior High School Wallace Aristide said that “Our students are devastated. Whatever is happening in the streets, I think everybody has to come together with a plan to see how we can support our young people when they’re away from us.”

“It’s incredible because things are going so well at the school. Your concern is you want to keep them with you the whole time, but they have to leave you sometime and go into the community, and that’s where the challenges occur.”

Parents and grandparents were so afraid to let their child walk home from school after the fatal shooting that they began picking up their child as soon as school let out. Shirley Butler said that she doesn’t feel comfortable letting her grandson, who is in the 11th grade, walk home from school because “it’s not safe.”

Lubin’s death marks the fourth student to be gunned down this year. In September, Randall Dwaine Robinson III, 17, and Maurice Harris, also 17, were both shot and killed just three days apart as they were walking home from school. Ninth grader Aaliyah, 15, Giordani told reporters that she wanted the public to know that “it’s not the school that’s the problem.” She added that she “feel safe when I am at school.”

The morning after the shooting, students at Miami Northwestern Senior High School said there was a moment of silence for Johnny Lubin Jr. and the other students who lost their lives this year due to gun violence. It was an emotional morning, and counselors had to convert the school’s lounge, where students congregate before classes, into a counseling center.

The Superintendent of Miami-Dade County Public Schools Alberto M. Carvalho stated via Twitter that “The heartbreak continues in Miami with another teenage life lost to cowardly, murderous bullets. Enough of the senseless code of silence.”

Miami-Dade police officials ask that if anyone has information regarding the shooting death of Johnny Lubin Jr. to call Crime stoppers at (305) 471- TIPS.

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