A man died of gunshot wounds Saturday night after two Miami police officers fired their weapons, a department spokeswoman said.

Neither the officers nor the victim involved in the shooting at Northwest Fifth Avenue and 22nd St. were identified Sunday. Police offered few details about the circumstances.

The officers will be placed on administrative duties until an investigation is complete, said spokeswoman Kenia Reyes.

Nearby residents told The Miami Herald that they heard shots about 7:20 p.m. Saturday, but saw nothing. Police said they could not comment.

No one could identify the victim.

Sunday, two internal affairs officers stood outside an empty-looking apartment complex after going door-to-door looking for witnesses. No one saw anything, they said.

At the Rainbows apartment complex across the street, yellow police tape tied to a seven-foot fence fluttered in the wind as children played outside. Mercedes Spates, 22, said she heard shots, but saw nothing when she looked out her bedroom window on the second story of the peach-brown apartment building.

``I looked out, and couldn't see anything. It was dark. And then I heard sirens,'' she said. ``I thought it was fireworks.''

A few hundred feet from her bedroom window, on a dead-end street bordered by an empty lot and an empty warehouse, is a dark blood stain.

Felicia Elwood, 38, was sitting on a small patio surrounded by a tall fence topped with barbed wire the night of the shooting.

``It was peaceful one minute, then we heard gunshots,'' she said. ``Then police were everywhere.''

Elwood, who started managing the Wynwood Sober Living apartment complex three months ago, ran inside and called 911. The police came and went quickly, she said.

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