Two die and 20 injured as gunmen shoot into crowd at banquet hall

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Two people died and an estimated 20 to 25 people were injured in a shooting outside a banquet hall in Florida&comma; police in the US have said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The gunfire erupted early on Sunday at the El Mula Banquet Hall in Miami-Dade County&comma; near Hialeah&comma; police said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The banquet hall had been rented out for a concert&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Three people got out of an SUV and opened fire into a crowd outside with assault rifles and handguns&comma; police director Freddy Ramirez III said&period; Authorities believe the shooting was targeted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;These are cold-blooded murderers that shot indiscriminately into a crowd and we will seek justice&comma;” Ramirez said in a tweet&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Two people died at the scene&comma; police said&period; As many as 25 people went to various hospitals for treatment&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>No arrests were immediately announced&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This is a despicable act of gun violence&comma; a cowardly act&comma;” Ramirez told the Miami Herald newspaper&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;This type of gun violence has to stop&period; Every weekend it’s the same thing&comma;” Ramirez said during an early morning news conference&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Republican governor Ron DeSantis commented on the shooting on Twitter&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;We mourn the loss of the two victims and are praying for the recovery of the more than 20 people injured at El Mula Banquet Hall near Hialeah&period; We are working with local authorities to bring justice to the perpetrators&period; Justice needs to be swift &amp&semi; severe&excl;” DeSantis tweeted&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Democratic state senator Shevrin Jones said he wants DeSantis to do more than just pray&period; He’s calling on the governor to sit down with Democrats to discuss meaningful ways of addressing gun violence&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Thoughts and prayers have been going on for years and thoughts and prayers haven’t done a damn thing inside the black community — or any community when it comes to gun violence&comma;” Jones said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>But he acknowledged Republicans are resistant to discuss the issue&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Republicans don’t want to talk about guns&period; They think we’re trying to take their guns away from them&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;If their talking point is that guns are for protection&comma; or that guns are for hunting&comma; just know that that terminology is different in certain communities&comma;” Jones said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Some of these individuals are using guns to murder&period; Some of these individuals are using guns to hunt people&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Businessman and TV personality&comma; Marcus Lemonis&comma; star of The Profit&comma; took to Twitter to offer a &dollar;100&comma;000 reward to help authorities capture the suspects&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Gun violence ushered in the Memorial Day weekend in South Florida when dozens of shots were fired outside another gathering in Miami’s Wynwood area&period; The shooting late Friday killed one person and injured six others&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68ed2de972642">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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