The bullets barely missed them, video shows. Now police are looking for the shooter. Bullets fly from a slow-moving SUV barely missing a man and woman standing in front of a Pompano Beach home, dramatic video released by the Broward Sheriff鈥檚 Office Wednesday shows. The department says the person responsible for the shooting is 鈥渁 dangerous felon鈥?named QuanTez Rodney Baker. The reason, BSO says: an argument over money. And detectives hope that by releasing the video of the Jan. 4 shooting, they will get information on Baker鈥檚 whereabouts. 鈥淏aker is a convicted felon who is currently on probation for charges relating to grand theft of a firearm, carrying a concealed weapon and resisting arrest,鈥?the department said in a news release. Get full access to Miami Herald content across all your devices. According to BSO, the man and woman were near the 2500 block of Fifth Street just before 6 p.m. Baker slowly drove a gray Mercedes-Benz GL350 SUV by the house and opened fire. The video shows the pair dodging bullets and running for cover. Neither one was hit, BSO said, but the home鈥檚 exterior walls were pierced. The SUV then took off. Anyone with information is asked to call BSO Det.
The lower end below the front grille sports the black honeycomb-mesh and the LED fog lamps with cornering lamps that come as optional (the cornering lamps get chrome surrounds which our press demonstrator had). The silhouette of the GL-Class makes it look large and muscular due to its long wheelbase, 19-inch tyres with five-spoke alloys and chrome roof rails. The chrome beltline and the haunch on its shoulder give an impression that the GL-Class is shorter than what it actually is. The high rear-end of the Mercedes-Benz GL350 gets small tail-lamps which look out of place; and some chrome treatment as well. The reflectors are located on the bumper and not integrated with the tail-lamps. With the GL being a large SUV, the challenge for the Mercedes-Benz engineers was to keep the weight of the vehicle as low as possible. So, to keep the weight on the lower side, about 54 per cent of the GL is built out of high-strength steel and even the thermoformed ultra-high-strength steel is used in some areas. The unitised steel body is basically a protective cocoon for the occupants during an impact.
The front and the rear ends are designed to absorb most of the energy during a collision which keeps the occupants safe as lesser (no energy) gets transferred to the cabin. Get inside the Mercedes-Benz GL350CDI and you will notice that the interior styling has been picked up straight from the ML-Class. The music system on the GL-Class has been upgraded and it even comes with a SD card slot. The interiors of the GL have been designed ergonomically and this being a Mercedes-Benz product, the fit and finish and the quality of the materials used is top notch. The wood trim elements give the interiors add to the rich feel. The GL350 CDI gets a twin-dial instrument cluster with chrome surrounds and the gear-lever is mounted on the steering column like most of the new Mercedes-Benz cars except for the C-Class. The COMAND goes missing on the GL350 CDI and the slot is rather occupied by two large cup-holders.
This SUV has a lot of practical storage space like the illuminated glove box, the huge stowage below the armrest between the front seats, and the earlier mentioned cupholders make up for some good usable storage space. With the electric steering adjust, motorized seat adjustment and comfortable leather seats, comfort is never an issue. The front seats have four-way adjustable lumbar support. The first two rows are spacious; however the third row is a bit tight on space. The boot of the GL350CDI has a volume of 620 litres and the last row seats split 50:50 can be folded electrically increasing the volume to 2300 litres. The power tailgate is a great feature to have, wherein the tailgate closes with the press of a button. Talk about the features, and the list goes long on the GL. The GL-Class has six-DVD changer with three LCD television screen (one in the centre console, and two for the middle row passengers). Being a large-size SUV, it gets a reverse camera which makes parking easier. The GL has a sunroof above the front row seats and a moon-roof for the last row of seats.
Another good feature to have is dual sun-blinds as shown in our pictures, this helps to cut sunlight. The passive knee-protection system and ISOFIX child seat attachments are the other safety features. The Mercedes-Benz GL350 CDI Blue Efficiency has a longitudinally mounted 2987cc engine with six-cylinder placed in a vee layout, to power all the four wheels through a seven-speed transmission. This is the same engine block that we saw on the Mercedes-Benz E350 CDI Blue Efficiency and even on the ML350CDI. This oilburner churns out 221bhp of power at 3800rpm and has a maximum torque of 510Nm packed in it. In our acceleration run, this large SUV sprinted to 100kph mark in 10.7 seconds and completed the quarter mile in 17.4seconds under damp conditions (the timing would have been better under normal dry conditions). The GL350CDI Blue Efficiency is a permanent all-wheel drive utility vehicle that comes with seven-speed automatic transmission, which the Mercedes-Benz calls it as the 7G-TRONIC (which is now a transmission seen on most of the Mercedes-Benz cars). The GL350CDI can be driven in low and high all-wheel drive modes, depending on the conditions.
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