A man was shot in the leg early Tuesday in South Beach, and police are asking for the public’s help.
Miami Beach officers responded at 3:21 a.m. to calls of a shooting in the 800 block of Collins Avenue. When they arrived, no one was there.
The wounded man was taken by a friend to Mount Sinai Medical Center, said police spokesman Ernesto Rodriguez. His injuries were not life-threatening and he was later released from the hospital. He is expected to be okay.
“Detectives are trying to piece together what transpired and are following leads,” Rodriguez said.
Anyone who saw something that could help with the investigation is asked to contact Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.
This bulletin will be updated.
This story was originally published April 27, 2021 at 6:58 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
