A domestic violence situation escalated when a firearm went off early Friday inside a Hialeah apartment complex, police said.
The call came in as a shooting shortly after 6 a.m. Friday at an apartment complex at 7271 West 24th Avenue, according to the Hialeah Police Department.
Police later learned that an altercation occurred after a witness armed with a firearm intervened in the domestic dispute, said Lt. Ernesto Rodriguez, spokesman for Hialeah police. The firearm discharged but did not strike or injure anyone, he said.
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
