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Police are searching for the shooter or shooters who gunned down three people at a child’s birthday party Sunday night.

The shooting occurred at 10 p.m. at a home located near Northeast 143rd and Sixth Avenue. North Miami Police said someone fired shots through a fence into a crowd of party-goers in the backyard. The three people who were wounded by the gunfire are recovering at Jackson Memorial Hospital. The two men and one woman are all expected to be OK.

The party-goers, who were celebrating a child’s second birthday, never saw the shooter so police do not have much information to go on. “We don’t have a description of a shooter or shooters at this point and we’re trying to find out who the people responsible for this are,” said North Miami Police Lieutenant Neal Cuevas.

One neighbor feels uneasy about the shooting occurring near her home. “I feel very bad because that could actually have been one of my family members,” said Felicia Coward.

North Miami Police are not sure if the shooting was gang-related, but they say they know they have a gang problem in the area.

Police continue to search for the killer of a pregnant teenager who was found murdered in the parking lot of a Broward supermarket.

According to the Miramar Police Department, the body of 17-year-old Stefanie Rabsett was found in the parking lot of a Winn Dixie located at 6301 SW 41st St. Friday, at around 6:30 p.m.

Police found the body inside a red Ford Taurus and said Rabsett was six months pregnant with a baby boy. “This is a very tragic event. You have a 17-year-old who is approximately six months pregnant and was found murdered in this vehicle, so anyone with information, and we are pleading the public, to please contact Broward County Crime stoppers. Someone out there knows who could have done this,” said Miramar Police spokesperson Tania Rues.

Rabsett’s sister rushed to the scene when she received the horrific phone call. “I was screaming and yelling because I knew something was wrong, and I asked them just tell me if my sister is OK, and when he said he could not tell me she was OK, I knew something was wrong,” said Marciey Thomas.

Javona Boyd is Rabsett’s cousin and said she saw her the day before her murder. “We were planning her baby shower. We have been planning everything as one, and it just hurts when you see someone one day, and you know there’s nothing wrong. If there was something wrong, I’m pretty sure she would have told me because we talk,” said Boyd.

Rabsett was a student at Macfatter Technical Center in Davie, and those who knew Rabsett said she was a very happy teen. “She was always smiling and laughing and she was just so goofy and giggly, and if something was wrong, anyone would have noticed. She was just a happy person, period, through out her whole lifetime,” said Boyd.

“It’s so hard, and it does not seem real right now that someone would do that, that someone would take her life and suffer like that and with her baby,” said Thomas.

An autopsy was made and revealed signs of foul play. Police continue to investigate, no arrests have been made.