Three people were injured in a shooting outside a Broward County strip club early Tuesday.
The shooting happened shortly before 2 a.m. at the Playhouse Gentlemen’s Club, 5775 Hallandale Beach Blvd. in West Park.
Based on the preliminary investigation, two gunmen got out of a car and shot the victims, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office. The victims were employees at the strip club, according to Local 10.
All three were taken to the hospital. The sheriff’s office said two of the people were seriously injured. The other person does not have life-threatening injuries.
Video taken by Miami Herald news partner CBS4 showed the parking lot of the club surrounded by crime tape. At least one car has multiple bullet holes.
This article will be updated.
This story was originally published July 20, 2021 at 7:13 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
