Miami Police Make New Arrest In Julia Tuttle Causeway Shooting

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miami police make new arrest in julia tuttle causeway shooting

Miami police have made another arrest in connection with a kidnapping that ended in a shooting on the Julia Tuttle Causeway in September.

Police took Kelly James Perpall into custody Tuesday on charges of attempted murder, armed kidnapping and home invasion robbery with a deadly weapon.

Authorities arrested an accused co-defendant , Mercedes Latifah Green, on those same charges on Oct. 1. Both Green, 33, and Perpall, 39, live in Miami's Liberty City neighborhood.

According to arrest reports, they're among a group of five people who kidnapped a woman from a home in the city's Little Haiti neighborhood on Sept. 10. Authorities haven't publicly identified any other co-defendants as of Wednesday afternoon.

Authorities said the group went to the home, located in 100 block of Northeast 68th Street, knocked on the door and asked for the victim, confronting her about money, drugs and a stolen gun she denied any involvement and closed the door on them.