Crime

Ocala woman killed in shooting between 2 men inside a Dania Beach bar, deputies say

A 32-year-old mother from Ocala was killed in the crossfire of a shooting between two men inside a Dania Beach bar early Wednesday, deputies said.

It happened inside Rookie’s Ale House, 3325 Griffin Rd., shortly before 3 a.m., according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. There was a broken window next to the bar’s entrance.

Based on the preliminary investigation, it appears that an argument between two men inside the bar escalated into gunfire, the sheriff’s office said. Marissa Harris was shot and killed in the crossfire. She was a bystander, deputies said.

As for the two men, the sheriff’s office said it is temporarily withholding their names. A BSO spokeswoman said that no arrests have been made yet.

Anyone with information that can help detectives with this investigation is asked to contact BSO Homicide Detective Samantha Cottam at 954-321-4544. You can also contact Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477) or online at browardcrimestoppers.org.

This story was originally published November 4, 2020 at 2:48 PM.

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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