One person was killed in a hit-and-run crash early Thursday in Hialeah.
An arrest has been made in connection to a deadly hit-and-run crash involving a bicyclist in Hialeah, police say.
Leonel Alejandro Laferte, 21, was arrested Thursday after turning himself in to traffic homicide detectives, according to Hialeah police. The crash happened early Thursday near the intersection of Southeast Fourth Avenue and East Okeechobee Road.
Police say a driver in a dark-colored vehicle struck a man on a bicycle around 4 a.m. and kept going southeast on Okeechobee Road. The bicyclist died from his injuries. Hours later, Laferte showed up to the Hialeah Police Department to turn himself in, police say.
The name of the bicyclist who died was not immediately available from police Friday.
Police charged Laferte with leaving the scene of an accident involving death and driving with a suspended license. On Friday, a judge told Laferte he could remain under house arrest if he posts a $50,000 bond, according to WSVN.
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
