Surveillance video shows moments leading up to fatal shooting of young father in Fort Lauderdale

A young South Florida father was shot and killed while sitting in his car early Wednesday morning, and now police are asking the public for help in locating who pulled the trigger.

Surveillance video shows 32-year-old Mike Menard taking out the trash from his parent's house on Northwest 13th Court in Fort Lauderdale early Wednesday morning and walking out of the gate to his car.

Video from a different angle shows a gunman running up to the car and opening fire before returning to another car and speeding off.

"Two police, three police, four police, 10 police, and we stay inside," Philippe Menard, Mike Menard's father, said. "We stay inside, and one of them come to know the door. They talk to us. They say, 'Mike no longer here.'"

Philippe Menard said Mike now leaves behind a 5-year-old daughter, Maya.

He said his son was born in Haiti but moved to the United States when he was 3-years-old. He said he excelled at school and was the first in the family to go to college.

He went to the University of Central Florida with a degree in criminal justice. Philippe said Mike got a job at a law firm in Boca Raton but recently lost that job.

"Since then, he comes here, whatever he want, can spend like three months, we don't see him, he got a girlfriend, he got a girlfriend there," Philippe said.

He said the violence began recently when a tree in his front yard was set on fire. Then another night, someone shot up their home.

He said he wants the person responsible for shooting and taking his son's life to come forward.

"Taking life of something, somebody that's painful," he said. Today it's me, tomorrow it could be somebody else."

Fort Lauderdale police said Mike Menard died in his car and homicide detectives have taken over the investigation.

Anyone with information is asked to call police. For people who want to remain anonymous, you can contact Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.