NYPD Commissioner reminds New Yorkers who the heroes were on 9/11

THE LARGE APPLE — New York City Police Commissioner Jessica Tisch appeared to deliver a subtle but unmistakable reminder to Mayor Zohran Mamdani Wednesday that there is, in fact, a difference between the people who attacked New York City and the Americans who ran toward the danger to save their fellow citizens.

Tisch made the apparently controversial observation during the unveiling of a new 9/11 Memorial Wall at One Police Plaza honoring more than 469 NYPD members who have died from illnesses connected to their service following the terrorist attacks.

“Preserving that history also means preserving its moral clarity,” Tisch said. “The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the towers to save innocent lives were heroes. Twenty-five years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction and shame on those who do.”

In what must have been an absolutely shocking development for modern New York politics, the police commissioner suggested that terrorists are bad and firefighters, police officers and other first responders are good. 

What an incredible reveal!

Many observers immediately suspected Tisch was speaking directly to Mamdani, despite the fact that she never actually used his name.

“Jessica Tisch said this with Zohran Mamdani sitting beside her. Public officials must show ‘moral clarity’ about 9/11 and never blur the distinction between heroes and terrorists. ‘Shame on those who do.’ She didn’t say his name. She didn’t have to,” former financial exec Sam Antar posted.

The timing was particularly interesting.

Just days earlier, Mamdani had signed official orders designating September 11 as a Day of Remembrance and addressing security concerns ahead of the 25th anniversary events.

Afterward, Mamdani gifted the ceremonial pen to his chief counsel, Ramzi Kassem, who has been directly linked to al-Qaeda terrorists and is considered by many decent patriots to be a scumbag who has no business being within a thousand miles of Ground Zero.

Unfortunately for everyone involved in the ceremony, Tisch happened to be standing between Mamdani and Kassem.

Mamdani therefore first handed the pen to Tisch and asked her to “pass it” to Kassem.

Tisch then reportedly made an abrupt exit from the room, presumably after realizing that New York's latest diversity initiative had somehow become a game of Hot Potato involving a ceremonial pen and an al-Qaeda-linked lawyer. She had another place in mind as to where the pen should be shoved.

Critics immediately accused comrade Mamdani of deliberately creating the bizarre optics and argued that he knew exactly how the gesture would look.

“This childish, calculated display of passive aggression was missed by no one, and will not be forgotten by Tisch or by NYC’s millions of 9/11 survivors,” Fox Business anchor David Asman said.

Matthew Hennessey wrote in a Wall Street Journal op-ed, “Everyone deserves a lawyer. But by deliberately handing his ceremonial pen to this man, Mr. Mamdani mocked the loss his city suffered on 9/11. And he forced Ms. Tisch to participate in that mockery. He might as well have turned to the cameras and winked.”

Fortunately, Commissioner Tisch apparently decided that 25 years was long enough to remember the basic facts.

The men who flew airplanes into buildings were terrorist scum. 

The people who ran toward those buildings were heroes.

And apparently, in 2026, someone still has to explain the difference.

But you know and Mamdani knows the difference and he seems to be on the side of his 'brothers' who flew into those buildings 25 years ago.

Wake up, America and lose your suicidal empathy, to use the words of the great Gad Saad.

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Historic First Openly LGBT Judge In Bexar County Forever Disqualified After Handcuffing A Lawyer Who Argued With Her

I honestly do not care who she sleeps with

SAN ANTONIO — Rosie Speedlin-Gonzalez, a Bexar (pronounced "Bear") County Court-at-Law No. 13 judge described in reporting as the first openly lesbian-identified judge elected in the county, agreed in April 2026 to resign immediately and accept a lifetime disqualification from judicial office in Texas. This marks what local observers called a rare moment in which a barrier-breaking career and a pair of handcuffs occupied the same résumé.

The deal followed a crazy December 2024 courtroom incident in which this judge ordered defense attorney Elizabeth Russell handcuffed and placed in the jury box during a heated argument over a plea in a domestic-violence probation case. 

Court records later confirmed that the argument had left the judicial process and the attorney's wrists in roughly the same condition. 

Speedlin-Gonzalez was later indicted on charges of official oppression and unlawful restraint. 

She was suspended without pay, lost her March 2026 Democratic primary, and then reached an agreement with the Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct. 

Criminal charges were dismissed “in the interest of justice.” She did not admit guilt, fault, or liability, a formulation that allowed every party to leave the room without having to explain the jury box. Under the agreement she is “forever disqualified” from sitting as a judge, running for or accepting appointment to judicial office, or performing judicial duties in Texas. 

Officials did carve out one remaining public function: she may still officiate straight and gay weddings if she does not wear a robe or invoke judicial authority, a rule apparently designed to keep the phrase "by the power vested in me" from making a surprise comeback.

A viral image reduced the episode to “banned for life,” “LGBTQ judge,” and “do you stand with this?” The phrasing is partisan and simplified. 

Multiple news outlets, including the San Antonio Express-News, Texas Public Radio, KSAT, the ABA Journal, and others, reported the same sequence of events and the terms of the deal. The handcuffing order, the resignation, and the lifetime bar from the bench in Texas are accurate.At press time, Texas still permitted the former judge to join two people in matrimony, provided nobody in the room could tell she used to run a courtroom.

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Iran Attacks U.S. Base in Jordan, Ships in Strait of Hormuz

Iran apparently decided that repeatedly getting punched in the face by the United States was not quite enough, so Tehran has escalated its attacks on American forces and shipping in the Middle East.

Iran fired ballistic missiles toward a base used by U.S. forces in Jordan and claimed to have attacked ships in the Strait of Hormuz. The good news for the Iranian regime is that it got to make the claim. The bad news is that reality remains stubbornly inconvenient. That is, the claim is balderdash.

A U.S. official told Fox News that the Iranian missile attack in Jordan was “ineffective” and that all American personnel in the country were accounted for.

“Iran’s response was ineffective in face of integrated air and missile defenses. Iran fired missiles toward Jordan. American forces have 100% accountability at all locations in Jordan,” the official told the outlet.

Jordan’s military said its air defenses intercepted 18 of the 20 ballistic missiles launched toward its territory. The other two apparently found some empty real estate to fall on, and no casualties were reported.

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps claimed it had targeted a base used by U.S. forces near Al Azraq and, naturally, claimed to have caused heavy damage. That assessment appears to have been written by the same committee responsible for Iran’s other great military success stories.

Meanwhile, Tehran claimed it had attacked 10 ships, including two U.S. vessels and eight oil tankers, attempting to cross what it called a “prohibited and unsafe” area of the Strait of Hormuz. 

The Pentagon, however, had a slightly different version of events.

U.S. Central Command rejected the IRGC's claim that Iranian forces had struck two U.S. Navy destroyers.

“This is completely FALSE,” CENTCOM said in a post on X.

“No U.S. Navy warship has been struck; all IRGC attempted attacks failed,” CENTCOM said, and I believe them. 

That is apparently what happens when your enemy's propaganda department runs into the inconvenient concept of radar.

CENTCOM also said American forces have destroyed 10 Iranian tankers over the past week, describing the vessels as part of a multibillion-dollar “shadow network” used to fund the IRGC and crippling their economy.

“Iran cannot defend them,” a CENTCOM spokesperson said.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has made the consequences of Iran's attacks remarkably clear. Apparently Washington has decided that the best way to respond to Tehran's attempts to destroy American warships is to destroy the financial machinery helping Tehran fund those attacks.

“Iran continues to try to hit U.S. naval ships, and for every time they do that or try to do that, they’re going to lose tankers,” Rubio told reporters during a visit to Colombia.

It's difficult to imagine a clearer message.

Iran shoots at American ships. Iran loses oil tankers.

Iran shoots again. Iran loses more oil tankers, and so on. 

At some point, one would hope someone in Tehran will ask whether this is actually a sustainable business model.

Unfortunately, the insanity doesn't stop there.

Iran-backed Houthis claimed Wednesday that Saudi-backed forces launched 32 airstrikes across four provinces in Yemen overnight as the fighting between the two sides intensified.

Houthi spokesterrorist Nasruddin Amer said the strikes targeted areas in Taiz, Hodeida, Jawf and Marib. Saudi Arabia has not confirmed the strikes, although a source in Pakistan told Reuters that Saudi Arabia had carried out retaliatory strikes in Yemen.

The reported retaliation came after the Houthis attacked four Saudi cities Tuesday, setting fire to oil facilities in an assault that produced massive flames visible from space. Saudi authorities said 73 people were wounded.

So, to recap: Iran is firing ballistic missiles at U.S. forces, Iranian forces are threatening shipping through one of the world's most important waterways, the Houthis are attacking Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia is striking Yemen, and everyone appears to be discovering new and creative ways to make the Middle East an even worse place to be.

The Saudi-backed government in southern Yemen has also launched a multi-pronged offensive against Houthi-controlled territory, while the Houthis have threatened Saudi shipping in the Red Sea.

The escalating violence has shattered a four-year truce in Yemen’s civil war and introduced even more uncertainty into global energy markets already dealing with disruptions across the Middle East.

And then there is the little matter of Iran's increasingly unsuccessful attempts to demonstrate that it can actually hurt the United States militarily.

Iran has repeatedly attempted to target U.S. warships with ballistic missiles in recent days. American forces have responded by striking Iranian oil tankers.

Iran apparently believes it can win this contest through sheer enthusiasm.

The United States appears to have brought a calculator.

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Deported Illegal Immigrant Allegedly Returns To U.S., Steals Audi, Gets Drunk, Drives Wrong Way, Kills Young Dad

DUNCANVILLE, TX, In what immigration officials apparently call the "we'll see you again soon" program, a previously deported illegal immigrant is accused of killing a young father while allegedly driving drunk in a stolen Audi the wrong way down a North Texas highway.

Alexander Nunez, 26, allegedly slammed into a vehicle carrying 29-year-old Kenan Ellis and two of his cousins shortly before midnight on September 3 on Highway 67 in Duncanville.

Ellis had recently celebrated his 29th birthday.

Unfortunately, the celebration was followed by what authorities say was an encounter with a previously deported illegal immigrant who had apparently managed to make his way back into the country, acquire access to a stolen luxury automobile, get intoxicated, and drive it directly into oncoming traffic.

Ellis was returning home from a music video shoot for popular rapper BigXThaPlug when the crash occurred, his uncle, Xavier Hicks, told conservative media outlet The Daily Wire. Hicks said the rapper was driving close behind.

Ellis leaves behind a 7-year-old son and a 5-year-old daughter.

Federal authorities had previously deported Nunez, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman told The Daily Wire. Nunez later illegally re-entered the United States without being encountered at the border.

Apparently, "You have been deported" is now less of a legal order and more of a customer loyalty program.

Nunez faces charges of intoxication assault, intoxication manslaughter, and unauthorized use of a vehicle. He is being held in the Dallas County Jail on a $110,000 bond.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement also lodged a detainer, asking local authorities to transfer Nunez to federal custody if they release him.

In other words, the federal government would very much like to have another opportunity to deport the man it already deported.

“Under President Trump and Secretary Mullin, if you break the law, you will face the consequences. Criminal illegal aliens are not welcome in the U.S.,” the DHS spokesperson said.

When Hicks learned that Nunez had previously been deported, his reaction was understandably brief.

“Wow.”

There are moments when the English language simply runs out of words.

“Honestly and truthfully, that’s unfortunate. But my faith keeps telling me that it was God’s timing,” Hicks said.

“I hold no malice in my heart for Alexander Nunez,” he added.

That is an extraordinary amount of grace from a man whose family has just been devastated.

Ellis’ cousins were left with multiple broken bones, while one is expected to be in a wheelchair for several months, according to Fox 4. Both are expected to recover.

The three men were roughly five minutes from home when the crash occurred.

Five minutes.

They were close enough to home that the tragedy almost certainly began with thoughts about getting through the front door, taking off their shoes and going to bed.

Instead, one man never made it home.

Authorities determined that Nunez was intoxicated after he failed field sobriety tests, Fox 4 reported.

Ellis’ sister, Siniya Allen, described her late brother as “a great dad,” “an amazing brother,” and “an amazing son.”

“He was there for all his friends. He was just a great person,” she told Fox 4.

Ellis is survived by his 7-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter.

Allen said Nunez’s alleged actions left her family with an overwhelming loss.

“He took something important from us. I lost a brother. My mom lost a son. I have another brother. He lost his sibling. His kids have to grow up without a dad. No kid should have to do that at the expense of somebody else’s actions,” Siniya said.

She is right.

No child should have to grow up without a father because someone allegedly decided that drinking, stealing a car and driving the wrong way down a highway was a perfectly reasonable evening itinerary.

And perhaps the most maddening detail is that this did not involve some mysterious individual who had never crossed the government's radar.

Authorities had already found him.

They had already deported him.

He came back.

Now a young father is dead, two families are dealing with serious injuries, and two children are growing up without their dad.

But at least the government has apparently discovered a bold new immigration policy:

Deport them and hope they don't notice the border is still there.

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Karmelo Anthony Apparently Wanted the Internet to Keep Receipts

Convicted killer and homophobe Karmelo Anthony apparently spent months assembling what can only be described as a digital scrapbook of crappy decisions, posing with guns, ranting about other black people, and accusing gay people of “f—king everything up” before fatally stabbing Austin Metcalf at a Texas high school track meet.

A newly uncovered 75-page document dump reportedly reveals a disturbing collection of texts between Anthony and his then-girlfriend, offering a glimpse into a teenager whose apparent solution to increasingly serious problems was to create even more serious problems because he's not so bright.

The Daily Mail first reported images of Anthony flashing a handgun in a November 2024 video, just months before he fatally stabbed Metcalf in the heart at a high school track meet in Frisco, Texas, in April 2025. 

Another image from May 2024 shows Anthony holding an AK-47-style rifle alongside three other teenagers. A third video reportedly shows Anthony aiming a gun at an unknown residence before running away on Jan. 4, 2025.

Apparently, this was not exactly the sort of wholesome extracurricular activity schools like to highlight in their yearbooks.

And because one apparently needs more evidence that Anthony had a serious problem with judgment, the newly uncovered texts reportedly show him directing profanity-laced hatred toward members of his own community.

A week before the killing, Anthony reportedly sent several messages to his girlfriend, Valeria Perez, expressing his deep disdain for other black people.

“I f—king despise Black b*tches,” he said, according to a screenshot.

“F—king n—ers,” he wrote, according to the documents. “They need to go die.” 

Anthony apparently wasn't finished offending people. In a June 2021 text to a friend, he reportedly turned his attention toward gay people.

“These f—king gay people are f—king everything up,” he wrote.

He also reportedly said he hated then-President Joe Biden because he’s “Gay ASB [as balls],” according to the New York Post.

It turns out the internet's permanent memory is not always your friend.

The dossier also contains allegations of criminal behavior unrelated to the stabbing. In an October 2024 text, Anthony reportedly told his girlfriend he “might gt [go to] jail” after claiming he had broken into a neighbor’s home and stolen a watch.

He also allegedly bragged about bringing a gun and knife to school.

Because apparently the concept of leaving the weapons at home was not sufficiently exciting.

The evidence never made it to trial and was not presented to the jury, despite offering prosecutors additional allegations about Anthony's behavior before the killing.

In August, a Texas judge rejected Anthony’s long-shot request for a new murder trial, dealing another setback to his appellate team, which had alleged several errors during the proceedings. The Collin County District Attorney’s Office has maintained that prosecutors acted ethically throughout the trial, The Daily Wire previously reported.

Evidence presented at trial showed that Anthony refused to leave another team's tented area and, when confronted by the unarmed Metcalf, stabbed him directly in the heart.

A Texas jury rejected Anthony’s self-defense claim and sentenced him to 35 years in prison.

The case quickly became a national controversy, fueled in part by the narrative promoted by Anthony's family and what critics described as a striking lack of interest from legacy media outlets that have historically devoted enormous attention to incidents involving race.

The trial began June 1 with jury selection and concluded just nine days later.

Anthony broke down in tears and visibly shook as the verdict was read. He became emotional again when the judge announced his 35-year sentence.

When Metcalf’s family delivered victim impact statements, Anthony reportedly kept his head down and refused to look them in the eyes, even after being asked to do so.

Jeff Metcalf, Austin's father, wasn't interested in excuses.

“You can’t even look me in the eyes right now, but you can stab my f*cking son,” he said.

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Lindsay Clancy’s Lawyer Has One Small Problem With His Trump Pardon Request

Apparently, when your client murdered her three children, the next logical step is to ask President Donald Trump to ride in on the White House horse and make the whole thing disappear. 

That appears to be the strategy of Lindsay Clancy’s defense attorney, Kevin Reddington, who is now asking Trump to pardon his client after a Massachusetts jury managed to deadlock over whether she was criminally responsible for fatally strangling her three young children, 5-year-old Cora, 3-year-old Dawson, and 8-month-old Callan.

Appearing on “Good Morning America,” Reddington made his unusual appeal to Trump after the jury failed to reach a verdict in a trial that has generated a massive national debate over mental illness, criminal responsibility, and whether a person can be held accountable for horrific acts committed during an alleged psychotic episode.

“I’d like to say that perhaps Donald Trump, who felt compelled to speak out about this case … Mr. President, I would hope that you would consider this young lady, [the] type of person she is, what she’s been through, and consider a pardon,” Reddington told leftist host George Stephanopoulos.

There is, however, one tiny constitutional detail standing between Reddington and his dream of presidential intervention.

Clancy was charged under Massachusetts state law, not federal law.

Trump is president of the United States, not the governor of Massachusetts, emperor of New England, or the nation's all-purpose pardon dispenser.

The president's constitutional pardon power applies to federal offenses. It does not allow him to walk into a state criminal proceeding and announce, "You're free to go."

Even if Trump possessed the legal authority to pardon Clancy, there is another problem.

He has already condemned what happened. So if he flipped to her side, he would look like the main course at a Waffle House.

In the Oval Office on Friday, Trump described the killings as a “horrible tragedy” and indicated that he expected Clancy to face another trial.

“It’s a shame. It’s a horrible tragedy,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “Look, she did a horrible, horrible thing. Can’t be worse.”

That's probably not the sort of presidential endorsement Reddington was hoping for. But my guess is that he wants to put the president in a precarious position, which he has no right to do.

In January 2023, Clancy took her three young children into the basement of their Duxbury home and strangled them one by one with exercise bands.

The defense does not dispute that she killed the children. Instead, Reddington has argued that she was suffering from postpartum psychosis and therefore was not criminally responsible for her actions. Unfortunately, her act and the publicity it has garnered has resulted in several copycat acts by other mothers.

That argument was apparently enough to leave a jury hopelessly divided after 38 hours of deliberation.

Trump said the case had been difficult to escape because of the enormous amount of television coverage surrounding it. He also predicted that Clancy would face consequences, whether that meant confinement in a psychiatric institution or prison. In my humble opinion, Trump should have completely stayed out of it altogether.

“There’ll be a price,” Trump said, adding that he believes prosecutors would bring the case to trial again and calling that scenario “too bad.”

Meanwhile, Massachusetts Superior Court Judge William Sullivan declared a mistrial Friday after the jury, consisting of nine women and three men, failed to reach a unanimous verdict.

“With a heavy heart, we report we cannot come to a unanimous decision,” the jurors wrote in their final note to the judge.

The most serious charges were three counts of first-degree murder, each carrying a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment without parole.

For now, Clancy is expected to remain at Tewksbury State Hospital, a psychiatric hospital.

Reddington claimed he believed the jury was split 11-1 in favor of finding Clancy not guilty by reason of insanity. He seemed to implicate one of the three men on the jury which has led to several tons of controversy as the country has taken sides. The Left wants to excuse Clancy and the Right wants something called justice to be served. 

Unfortunately for anyone hoping to turn that into a definitive legal fact, the actual vote remains unknown.

As of Tuesday, Reddington said he had not spoken with any jurors, and none had given media interviews.

Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz said Friday that his office remains committed to seeking justice for the three children, although he stopped short of announcing whether prosecutors would retry the case. 

Does anyone have bets that Clancy will roll free?

“Our priority has always been to fight for Cora, for Dawson, and for Callan. The noise in this case may be louder than it is for other prosecutions in our county, but we have treated it the same as any other case,” Cruz said. “Children were murdered, and it’s our job to seek justice.”

That would seem like a fairly straightforward mission statement.

Three children were murdered.

The government is supposed to seek justice.

The defense attorney, naturally, has a different vision.

Reddington said he remains optimistic that he can negotiate some sort of deal that would prevent Clancy from facing another trial. He described her almost like a member of his own family, calling her a daughter and an “incredible person” with whom he shares a “strong bond.” [Imagine if your own daughter murdered your grandchildren.]

“I’m willing to listen to Tim [Cruz]. I’ve known Tim for 30 years. He’s a very high-charging prosecutor, conservative gentleman,” Reddington told ABC. “I hope, however, after sitting through this trial and seeing the evidence that was presented from the government as well as from the defense, that he would revisit that issue and hopefully would be able to work something out that would be acceptable to both sides.”

There is, of course, nothing wrong with a defense attorney doing his job. That job is to advocate for his client.

But asking the president to pardon someone convicted, or potentially convicted, of a state crime is roughly like asking the fire department to issue you a driver's license.

And perhaps that's the most fitting conclusion to this bizarre chapter.

Three children are dead.

A jury could not agree.

A retrial may be coming, as I believe it should. 

A defense attorney wants a deal.

And somewhere along the way, somebody apparently decided the Constitution was an inconvenient barrier. 

I'd be happy to know what you guys think, so feel free to comment.

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Illinois Mom Accused of Killing Toddler Apparently Took True Crime Research Way Too Far

As I previously posted, Corie Walsh hanged her 2-year-old son and now her lawyer is claiming the same excuse as has Lindsay Clancy's lawyer that this murderous mom was suffering from a "psychotic episode."

There are people who watch true-crime documentaries because they want to understand what makes someone capable of committing an unspeakable crime.

Then there is Corie Walsh who takes it to the next step.

The Illinois mother, who prosecutors say became deeply invested in the Lindsay Clancy trial, is now accused of allegedly killing her own 2-year-old son after apparently deciding that the toddler was the "anti-Christ" and the "devil."

At this point, "I was just doing research" probably isn't going to make the strongest closing argument, so she may need to take a different tact.

Walsh, 38, has been charged with murder after her son was found hanging from the rafters of the family's basement. Prosecutors say Walsh allegedly told police she killed the child because she believed him to be the "anti-Christ" and the "devil." Turns out she was wrong.

Authorities have also said Walsh was "very invested" in the Lindsay Clancy trial, involving the Massachusetts mother who admitted killing her three children by strangling them before attempting to kill herself.

Apparently, Walsh didn't merely follow the case. According to prosecutors, she became sufficiently fascinated by it that investigators are now examining the connection between her obsession with the case and the horrific death of her own child.

Walsh's attorney, Andrea Lyon, says there is another explanation. Her client, Lyon argues, suffered a severe mental break and was experiencing a "psychotic episode" when the killing occurred.

Police were called to the family's home Tuesday after a teenage neighbor discovered the toddler in the basement and began performing CPR. The child was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead. The coroner determined that he had died from asphyxia.

"It is also a tragedy that Corie herself was experiencing a psychotic episode at the time this happened. It is our hope that through a thorough presentation and investigation of the facts, that all of us will come to see this heartbreak for what it is," Lyon said, per CBS News.

That last part will presumably be left to the jury, because "psychotic episode" is a defense lawyers' phrase, while "your mother allegedly killed you because she thought you were the devil" is the kind of sentence that makes everyone else in the room desperately wish reality had an edit button.

Walsh was later found in a bathtub with cuts to her wrists and thighs. She was transported to a hospital for treatment of injuries that were not considered life-threatening before being transferred to the Will County Adult Detention Facility.

She is scheduled to appear in court on September 8.

The Illinois Department of Child and Family Services said it had no prior contact with the Walsh family before the incident.

The case now presents an especially grim collision of mental illness, true-crime obsession and alleged murder, with a 2-year-old boy paying the ultimate price for a nightmare that no child should ever have been forced to enter.

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UPDATE: Amazon Cargo Plane mishap at Miami airport results in 5 deaths and 5 serious injuries

We now know that at least five people were killed, and five others were seriously injured, at Miami International Airport on Sunday after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway, struck multiple vehicles and caught fire while landing.

The Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office (MDSO) and Miami-Dade Fire Rescue (MDFR) confirmed that there were at least 10 victims involved in the crash, which happened when Prime Air flight 7598 overran Miami International Airport’s diagonal runway [number 30] at about 2 p.m. local time.

An Amazon spokesperson expressed condolences following the devastating crash at Miami International Airport that left five people dead.

"We're heartbroken to learn that five people lost their lives in today’s incident at Miami International Airport. Our deepest sympathies go out to the families, loved ones, and all those affected by this devastating loss," the company said.

The tragedy unfolded Sunday afternoon after an Amazon Prime Air Boeing 767 operated by 21 Air crashed while attempting to land at the airport.

Fire Chief Raied Jadallah said three people were transported to a trauma center in critical condition, while two others were taken to a local hospital.

Miami-Dade County Mayor Daniella Levine Cava said rescue crews wasted no time responding to the crash.

The rescue team "was there within seconds of the crash," Cava said.

Firefighters were also dealing with a dangerous fuel leak from the aircraft.

"We do still have an active fuel leak that's occurring off of the aircraft that is being mitigated," Jadallah said.

Fire officials told Fox News Digital that the fire originated in the aircraft's engine. HazMat crews were able to safely shut down the engine while firefighters worked to contain the fuel leak.

"Firefighters encountered a complex engine compartment fire and used foam from specialized airport firefighting units to extinguish the flames," officials said.

The crash also involved vehicles on the roadway, leaving several victims trapped inside their cars. According to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, one victim required "extrication" by specialized technical rescue personnel.

Crews simultaneously launched search-and-rescue operations for the pilots and co-pilots, who officials said were trapped inside the cockpit. Emergency personnel also worked to locate and evaluate patients scattered throughout the crash site.

The scale of the emergency response was massive. More than 60 fire units and approximately 200 personnel rushed to the scene after the aircraft crashed and came to a stop beyond the airport operations boundary.

"Units arrived to find an airplane that had caught on fire as a result of this crash, with heavy flames and smoke showing. Firefighters are working on extinguishing the fire and assessing patients," the Miami-Dade Fire Rescue said in a post on X.

MDFR has since shifted into a supporting role, with units remaining at the scene to assist other agencies investigating and responding to the disaster.

Amazon confirmed that the aircraft experienced an "incident" while attempting to land, though the company did not immediately provide details about what caused the crash.

"We can confirm that an Amazon Air plane operated by 21 Air experienced an incident while attempting to land at Miami International Airport today," Amazon said.

"This is a fast-moving situation and we're still gathering details. We're working closely with local authorities and officials to understand exactly what happened. Right now, our absolute priority is the safety, well-being, and care of everyone involved. We're doing everything we can to support those affected."

Boeing also weighed in, confirming that the aircraft has been flying for decades.

The aerospace giant told Fox News that the Boeing 767 was originally delivered as a passenger aircraft in 1994 before later being converted into a freighter.

"Boeing extends our deepest condolences to the families and loved ones of those who lost their lives in the accident in Miami. Our hearts go out to those injured and affected by this tragedy. Boeing is supporting the investigation led by the U.S National Transportation Safety Board," the company said.

The Federal Aviation Administration said 21 Air Flight 7598, a Boeing 767-300, had departed Luis Muñoz Marín International Airport in San Juan, Puerto Rico.

County CAD records indicate that the emergency call came in at approximately 1:55 p.m.

Cava said local officials were closely monitoring the situation as emergency crews continued their work.

"Right now, our focus is on everyone involved and making sure our first responders have what they need. We will provide updates as we learn more," she said in a post on X.

The crash immediately disrupted operations at one of the nation's busiest airports.

Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said authorities had issued a full ground stop while first responders assessed the wreckage and dealt with the emergency.

"We’ve issued a full ground stop at Miami International while first responders assess the scene after an Amazon cargo plane overran the runway. If you’re traveling through the area, please expect significant delays and potential cancellations," he said in a post on X.

Airport officials later announced that one runway had reopened, but warned that they were "still experiencing impacts from this incident."

Passengers scheduled to fly out of Miami on Sunday were urged to check directly with their airlines for the latest flight information before heading to the airport.

For now, investigators face the grim task of determining exactly what went wrong during the landing and how an aircraft carrying cargo ended up crashing beyond the airport's operations boundary and striking vehicles on the ground.

The investigation will ultimately have to provide answers, but for the families of those who died, no explanation can undo the loss suffered Sunday in Miami.

The National Transportation Safety Board is sending Jennifer Homendy. She is the Chairwoman of the NTSB and reports say she'll be leading the team investigating the crash. The NTSB has an office in Miami so the investigation should start very soon.

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