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Man robbed, shot, left in Biscayne Bay

Alejandro Gonzalez, whose family owns the popular David's Cafes in South Beach, was found in Biscayne Bay with a gunshot wound, police and family said.


A man shot through his torso was pulled from the bay Monday afternoon. Look for a white boat with a center console and a black engine, he stammered.
Detectives immediately launched an exhaustive search on the shimmering waters of Biscayne Bay for two men in a getaway boat.
By day's end, three boats had been searched. Possible culprits were taken in, then discounted. The would-be killers were still on the loose Monday night.
''That the getaway vehicle was actually a boat was pretty bizarre,'' said Miami Beach Sgt. Robert Hernandez, a spokesman. ``It's a pretty convoluted case. Your average robbery victim doesn't get shot and thrown in the bay.''

Alejandro Gonzalez, 35, whose family owns two David's Cafes in South Beach, was recovering from emergency surgery at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. He helps run both restaurants.
Most of the family had just arrived from a family wedding in Spain. The family's patriarch, Alfredo Gonzalez, 71, is still there.
''They're thinking it was a robbery,'' said Alejandro's brother, also named Alfredo Gonzalez, 40. ``His watch is missing.''
The clues on a scorching day didn't seem to fit, police said.

Gonzalez's family said restaurant staff had seen him Monday morning. In the early afternoon, he parked his Land Rover at Maurice Gibb Park, 18th Street and Purdy Avenue.
He said he was shot at the park and dumped in the water, floating with the current underneath the Venetian Causeway.
Detectives are looking for people who may have seen him at the park. His Land Rover was stolen, too.
Construction workers fished Gonzalez from the water at the west end of Lincoln Road. A white man and a black man had shot him and escaped on the boat, Gonzalez told them. He was rushed to the Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson.

Immediately, police began scouring bay marinas. On Watson Island near the Jungle Island theme park, two men had docked and were loading their 20-foot boat onto a truck trailer when officers swarmed the dock, guns drawn, ordering them to the ground. The white boat, still in the water, had four fishing rods, sardines for bait and a casting net inside.
Police questioned the men and, concluding they had no connection to the shooting, released them.
''This was a lot of excitement for this marina,'' said Peter Daniel, 23, a water-bike company employee who watched the scene unfold.

Meanwhile, Gonzalez's own white boat was found docked behind the Murano Grande condos at 400 Alton Rd.
Detectives are also searching Gonzalez's condominium there for clues.
A third white boat was found empty at Pelican Harbor Park & Marina near North Bay Village. It was taken to Miami Beach's marine patrol station for processing. Who owns that boat is unclear.

Detectives on Monday evening were waiting to interview Gonzalez.
''We're anticipating that when the victim recovers, we'll get more information,'' Hernandez said.