At about 5:45 a.m., Miami Police officers responded to reports of a man armed with a stick assaulting people around North Miami Avenue and Northwest Sixth Street. The man, later identified as Brenton Clarke, 36, was arrested after a brief foot chase.

A man has been arrested after an “unprovoked” attack on homeless people in downtown Miami left two dead and two others hospitalized Thursday morning, authorities said. Brenton Clarke, 36, faces two counts of first-degree murder,

The names of the suspect — who was apprehended soon after the attack ؅— and the victims were not identified by law enforcement authorities because of the ongoing investigation, said Miami Police Chief Manny Morales during a press conference on Thursday afternoon.

The police said that Brenton Clarke, 36, of Long Island, N.Y., used a metal rod and a wooden stick to attack four homeless people in what they said was an unprovoked assault.

A man was arrested Thursday and charged with murder after, police say, he attacked homeless people in Miami with a metal rod and a wooden plank with nails in it, killing two and injuring two more.

Miami police have identified the man accused of killing two homeless people and injuring two others in an unprovoked attack