College students who hoped to avoid Mexican cartel violence by partying in Miami Beach are reconsidering their plans.
The city of Miami Beach set a state of emergency curfew following shootings that left two male spring breakers dead and another injured.
Police detained one suspect at the scene of a fatal shooting on Friday and seized four handguns.
Now the mayor of Miami Beach is calling for a spring break ban after the shootings, fights, underage drinking and out-of-control crowds.
Miami Beach Mayor Dan Gelber said in a video that the gunfire and crowds “created a peril that cannot go unchecked.”
Rapper Meek Mill was among the adults mingling with college students on Miami Beach on Friday, March 17.
Many college students canceled their trips to Mexico after four Americans were kidnapped and two were killed in Matamaros in early March.
The kidnappings were on students’ minds when they decided to head to Miami Beach. But now two of them are dead.
A city commission will meet on Monday, March 20, to consider banning spring break or imposing another curfew likely from Thursday through Monday.
The curfew starts at midnight and can only be imposed for 72 hours.
