A suspect who police say opened fire at an officer investigating an early morning crash in Davie was taken into custody Tuesday morning.
Police say the crash happened shortly after 2 a.m. near the area of Griffin Road and State Road 7, just north of the giant Guitar Hotel.
Video taken by WSVN shows two cars with front-end damage near the intersection, in front of Happy Pappy Liquors. A Wendy’s and a Wawa under construction also are nearby.
Officers had just arrived to investigate the crash when police say someone began shooting at one of the officers.
Davie police Lt. Mark Leone says no one was injured and that none of the officers returned fire.
A search soon began in the area for the shooter, and the suspect was later found and taken into custody, Leone said.
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
