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Who shot a person dead in front of a home in Miami Gardens? What police are saying

One person was shot and killed overnight in front of a Miami Gardens home, police said.
One person was shot and killed overnight in front of a Miami Gardens home, police said. Getty Images/iStockphoto

One person was shot and killed overnight in front of a home in Miami Gardens, police said.

The shooting happened in the 3200 block of Northwest 196th Lane shortly before 11 p.m. Sunday, according to Miami Gardens police.

Police said they found the dead person in front of a home while responding to a ShotSpotter alert, a system that notifies police to gunfire in an area.

Investigators don’t have any suspect description yet and are working to learn what led up to the shooting.

No other information was immediately available.

Anyone with information that can help with the investigation should call police.

Michelle Marchante
Miami Herald
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
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