A man was killed and a woman was critically wounded Tuesday after police say an argument between them and another man escalated into gunfire.
This happened just before 4 a.m. near Northwest 17th Avenue and 74th Street, according to Miami-Dade police.
Upon arriving, officers found a man dead and a woman with gunshot wounds, police said. She was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition.
Investigators later learned that the pair was arguing with another man prior to the shooting, said police spokesman Det. Alvaro Zabaleta.
Police say they have detained a man for questioning.
No other information was immediately available.
This article will be updated.
This story was originally published March 9, 2021 at 7:30 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
