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Watch a shooting outside of a Wendy’s drive-thru in North Miami Beach. Police need help

New surveillance video shows the moment when three gunmen shot at an SUV filled with children outside of a Wendy’s in North Miami Beach.

Police are hoping the video will bring in tips on who the shooters are and where cops can find them.

The shooting happened on Saturday in the drive-thru of the Wendy’s, 25 NE 167th St.

Police say the driver, who had six children in the SUV, was ordering food at the drive-thru when three people began shooting at him. The children were related to him and between the ages of 3 and 13.

Detectives believe this was a targeted attack against the driver.

In the video, the driver gets out of the car and runs as the gunmen continue to shoot at him, some of the bullets hitting the Wendy’s. The car continued to drift driver-less out of the Wendy’s as the gunmen scatter.

Police say they later found the driver wounded in a nearby gas station. He was brought to the hospital.

Anyone with information that can help with the investigation is asked to call police or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.

This story was originally published November 10, 2021 at 7:50 AM.

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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