Man ‘ambushed’ and shot dead outside front door of Cutler Bay home, police say
By Charles Rabin and
Michelle Marchante
A 31-year-old man was shot and killed just outside the front door of his Cutler Bay home late Tuesday night by another man who police say was waiting for the victim to return home, police said.
Multiple suspects then entered the home in the 2200 block of Southwest 99th Avenue and ransacked it, according to Miami-Dade police.
Police were still looking for the killer Wednesday morning.
According to police, 31-year-old Daniel Macko got home at about 11:30 p.m., and as he was opening the front door, the attackers “ambushed him.” Police didn’t say what was stolen from the home.
Police were called to the home by witnesses who said they heard as many as three gunshots.
The burglars then left in a black Dodge van, a vehicle that police said might be linked to a previous robbery. No information was released about the previous incident.
Anyone with information is urged to contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at (305)471-TIPS (8477) or (866) 471-8477. You can also visit www.crimestoppersmiami.com and select “Give a Tip”
This story was originally published November 6, 2019 at 6:59 AM.
Chuck Rabin, writing news stories for the Miami Herald for the past three decades, covers cops and crime. Before that he covered the halls of government for Miami-Dade and the city of Miami. He’s covered hurricanes, the 2000 presidential election and the Marjory Stoneman Douglas mass shooting. On a random note: Long before those assignments, Chuck was pepper-sprayed covering the disturbances in Miami the morning Elián Gonzalez was whisked away by federal authorities.
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
