Woman arrested after Miami woman shot, beaten and kidnapped – NBC 6 South Florida

A woman has been charged with attempted murder, nearly a month after another woman was found shot to death on Interstate 195 in Miami Beach.

According to an arrest report for Latifah Mercedes Green, 33, she was among a group of people who beat the victim, kidnapped her and held her in a car for over an hour before dragging her to the side of the Julia Tuttle Causeway and shooting her three times.

Green was arrested Tuesday and faces charges of attempted murder, kidnapping and trespassing.

It was before 2 a.m. on Sept. 10 when Green and another woman allegedly arrived at a Miami home where the victim's boyfriend lived and asked about the victim.

When she came to the door, she was questioned about money, drugs and a stolen gun, police said. After the victim denied everything, they left and returned with at least three other men who stormed into the house.

One of the men accused the victim of stealing that gun and asked where she was before “striking her in the face multiple times with the firearm and his fist,” an arrest report said.

He then allegedly gave the weapon to another man, who also hit and beat the victim with it.

Green hit her in the head with a liquor bottle, police said.

A witness said one of the men pulled out a gun to stop anyone from intervening.

“The victim was dragged out of the house by her hair” and forced into a Ford F-150 by the man who claimed she had his gun, the arrest report states.

Once in the car, the victim directed the suspects to her father's house, claiming the gun was there.

When the group knocked on his door sometime after 2 a.m., he said he didn't know about the gun and the suspect left.

The alleged attackers drove around with the victim until they stopped the car around 3:08 a.m. and the men dragged them out, police said.

The man who wanted his gun at the time is said to have shot her three times.

A woman was found with multiple gunshot wounds on I-195 in Miami Beach. NBC6's Lena Salzbank reported

“After the victim was shot, she walked along the Julia Tuttle Causeway seeking help,” the arrest report states. It wasn't until 3:45 a.m. that Miami Beach police received a call from a passerby who said there was a body lying on the side of the road.

Officers found the woman and took her to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital with gunshot wounds and serious injuries to her face. She had to be intubated due to her injuries, the arrest report states.

According to the report, police learned two days later that the victim had been kidnapped and showed up at the friend's house. Although he had cleaned the apartment, officers found blood belonging to the victim “on the ceiling, floor, walls, doors and furniture of the house.”

The victim later told hospital investigators that she knew all of the perpetrators except Green.

Green, meanwhile, denied being there when the victim was shot, police said.

Authorities said in the arrest report that the suspect's vehicle was seen on surveillance video at the scene, but did not provide names about the other people allegedly involved.

It was not immediately clear whether additional arrests were pending.