A mother was struck and killed in a hit-and-run near a convenience store in Opa-locka.
It happened at Northwest 135th Street and 30th Avenue late Wednesday night, according to Opa-locka police. She died on the street.
She was a mother of six, according to WSVN. Police did not identify the woman.
“It’s very disheartening to us because that’s someone’s mother or sister...someone they just left at the scene,” Opa-locka Police Chief James Dobson told NBC6.
All lanes in the area were shut down during the investigation. Video taken by TV news stations showed the woman’s body on the side of the road, covered in a yellow tarp. She was reportedly near a Kwik convenience store.
Anyone with information on the hit-and-run is asked to call police.
This report will be updated as more information becomes available.
This story was originally published January 16, 2020 at 8:04 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
