A man wielding a stick killed two homeless people in Miami and injured two others in an unprovoked attack, law enforcement officials said. Brenton Clarke, 36, of Inwood, New York, was arrested shortly after the Thursday morning attack, officials said. He has no arrest history in Miami but does have an arrest history for minor offenses in New York, Miami police said. A 911 call placed just after 6am Thursday alerted officials to what they say was a man armed with a stick, beating people living on the streets of Miami, the AP reports.
Two victims were pronounced dead at the scene, while the other two were transported to a nearby trauma center, officials said. Miami police are working to determine the motive behind the attacks. Miami Police Chief Manny Morales told reporters on Thursday that the suspect first beat one man near a downtown train station before heading down the street to batter another homeless man. He then attacked a homeless couple across the street, Morales said. Officers responded "within seconds" of the dispatch call, Morales said, chasing down the man and taking him into custody after he tried to run away.
"This is a horrible incident," Morales said. "The officers on the scene and the Miami Police Department is appalled at this display of unprovoked violence." Clarke is being held without bond at the Miami-Dade jail. He's been charged with two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of attempted first-degree murder, and armed robbery with a deadly weapon. (More Miami stories.)
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