The police attended the scene in response to a “wanted subject” who started firing shots at officers, according to the Miami Police Department.
The suspect was shot dead in the dramatic stand-off, there were no other reported injuries.
Kiara Delva, a Miami police spokeswoman, said:“The FBI were searching for a subject.
“They located him off Northwest 57th Avenue and Seventh Street.
“The FBI requested assistance from the City of Miami, Miami-Dade and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
“Shots were fired and the subject is deceased.”
In video which circulated on social media and taken from a balcony nearby, dozens of gunshots can be heard being fired, while a woman screams: “Oh my God, oh my God!”
An onlooker told the Herald “it was like a war” and noted police and helicopters were following the suspect.
She added the shooting began on 57th Avenue and ended near 72nd Avenue.
The woman said: “There was a car chase.
“They were exchanging fire until police surrounded them.
“It looked like a war.”
According to a county official, Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez acknowledged the shooting at a Thursday budget meeting, saying a shooter with an AK-47 was dead after exchanging gunfire with the police near Miami International Airport.
On Thursday morning, the FBI and local authorities started searching for Alexander Carballido, a 40-year-old convicted for kidnappings, aggravated battery, carjacking with a deadly weapon, fleeing and eluding police and aggravated assault on a police officer.
He was on probation but a surveillance video shot on Wednesday showed Carbadillo committing a robbery.
The federal authorities did not confirm whether the “be on the look out” order for Carballido was related to the fatal police-involved shooting near the airport.
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