A woman at an assisted living facility was wounded by a stray bullet during a fight between two carnival workers early Thursday at the nearby Broward County Fair in Margate, police said.
One of the carnival workers has been taken into custody, Margate police said.
The fight between the two workers began around 4:30 a.m. at the fair, which is set to open Thursday afternoon in a lot on North State Road 7 near Margate Boulevard, according to police.
At some point, one of the workers took out a gun and shot twice, police said.
One of the bullets broke a window and struck a woman who was inside her room at Waterside Landing, an assisted living facility on Lakeside Drive that is behind the fairgrounds, according to police.
She was taken to Broward Health North with non-life-threatening injuries.
In TV video, officers were seen on the fairgrounds, near the Ferris wheel, and at the assisted living facility.
This story was originally published November 18, 2021 at 7:48 AM.
Michelle Marchante covers the pulse of healthcare in South Florida and also the City of Coral Gables. Before that, she covered the COVID-19 pandemic, hurricanes, crime, education, entertainment and other topics in South Florida for the Herald as a breaking news reporter. She recently won first place in the health reporting category in the 2025 Sunshine State Awards for her coverage of Steward Health’s bankruptcy. An investigative series about the abrupt closure of a Miami heart transplant program led Michelle and her colleagues to be recognized as finalists in two 2024 Florida Sunshine State Award categories. She also won second place in the 73rd annual Green Eyeshade Awards for her consumer-focused healthcare stories and was part of the team of reporters who won a 2022 Pulitzer Prize for the Miami Herald’s breaking news coverage of the Surfside building collapse. Michelle graduated with honors from Florida International University and was a 2025 National Press Foundation Covering Workplace Mental Health fellow and a 2020-2021 Poynter-Koch Media & Journalism fellow. Support my work with a digital subscription
