MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. -- Authorities continue to sweep South Florida, stopping cars, questioning relatives and interviewing anyone who may know the whereabouts of a 25-year-old man who police said shot four Miami-Dade police officers Thursday morning, killing one.

Shawn Sherwin Labeet is wanted after a shooting at an apartment complex at Southwest 143rd Court and Southwest 280th Street that left one officer dead and three others injured.

Miami-Dade Police Department Media Relations Bureau Commander Linda O'Brien gave reporters a play-by-play of the incident that began the manhunt Thursday morning.

"Shortly after 11:21 a.m. Thursday, Miami-Dade police officers from the Cutler Ridge district were in a development conducting a burglary surveillance detail. They saw a vehicle driving erratically. They stopped the vehicle and attempted to question the driver. The subject got out of the vehicle and started to shoot at officers."

Officers' Names Released

Miami-Dade police released the names of the officers involved in Thursday's shootings. All of the officers worked out of the Cutler Ridge District unit.

The deceased officer was identified as Jose Somohano, 37, who was hired in 2003.

Jody Wright, 31, was shot in the leg and remains at Jackson Memorial Hospital. She was hired in 2005.

Christopher Carlin, 34, was hired in 1994, and Tomas Tundidor, 37, was hired in 1989. Both officers were treated at local hospitals and released.

Mistaken Identity

First reports were that the person responsible for the shootings was a man named Kevin Wehner. Wehner went to Jacksonville police after seeing reports.

"Wehner is not involved in this case. It appears to us that Labeet may have obtained identification, maybe a driver's license, in Wehner's name. We are trying to clarify that now," said O'Brien.

Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Alvarez said that it was Labeet's girlfriend who was apprehended at the scene that gave police wrong information.

"She told us his name was Kevin Wehner," said Alvarez, who stated that the first hours of any investigation are crucial and that the woman's statement hampered the investigation. She faces charges.

Information from the Jacksonville's Sheriff's Office said that in October 2006, Wehner reported receiving three automobile registrations from the Miami-Dade County automobile tag agency for two vehicles he did not own. Jacksonville police investigated the incident and discovered that an unknown person was identifying himself as Kevin Foston Wehner, using the victim's date of birth and Social Security number.

Wehner said he had moved from New York to Jacksonville and had a background check done in New York because of credit issues.

Car Stopped In Fort Lauderdale

Police focused on a 2007 four-door Pontiac Vibe with the Florida license tag number W59 EBT for most of the afternoon Thursday. The Vibe was located around 4:30 p.m. Thursday when a driver called 911 to say that they had spotted the car and the license plate.

Fort Lauderdale police then pulled the car over in a Target shopping center parking lot at Oakland Park Boulevard and Federal Highway. Local 10 said police interviewed the man who was driving the car -- a relative of Labeet. The Vibe was a rental car that had been leased to Labeet's brother, Shane Labeet.

Police confiscated the car, taking it from the parking lot of the Coral Ridge Mall on a flatbed truck.

Searching For The Killer

A helicopter hovered over a wooded area at Southwest 216th Street and 129th Avenue, where a pool worker said a man was hiding shortly after the shootings. In the afternoon, attention focused on a Publix supermarket warehouse in Deerfield Beach, about 40 miles from the original location of the shooting, where Local 10 reported Labeet's mother had worked. Police were also canvassing a residential area in Margate at an address listed to Labeet.

The vehicle police stopped Labeet in before he fled the scene, a white Honda Accord with a black hood, was found abandoned near a canal near Southwest 216th Street and 129th Avenue. The car appeared to have a shattered front window from bullet holes. O'Brien said they also found a weapon, but that Labeet may have another weapon.

"This man is armed and dangerous," O'Brien said.

The apartment complex where the shootings took place were evacuated Thursday night. Residents were allowed back in their homes in the early evening.

"Witnesses described the firepower as a machine gun, and the individual was able to fire a large number of rounds before officers could respond," said Miami-Dade Police Director Robert Parker.

The area where the altercation took place is east of US 1 and west of the Florida Turnpike, near Leisure City.