A man was taken to the hospital after police said he was shot near a Dollar General store in Miami-Dade early Friday.
He was shot near the groin area and was taken in critical condition to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center, according to Miami-Dade police.
The shooting happened in the area of Northwest 62nd Street and 32nd Avenue shortly before 3:30 a.m., police said. Miami Herald news partner CBS4 recorded police cruisers parked by the store. The area was surrounded by crime tape.
Police have not disclosed the victim’s name yet and said they do not have any suspect description.
Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call police.
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