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2 men found shot to death in the front yard of a Miami-Dade home, police say

Police are investigating a fatal double shooting outside of a home in Southwest Miami-Dade Friday.
Police are investigating a fatal double shooting outside of a home in Southwest Miami-Dade Friday. el Nuevo Herald

Two men were found shot to death early Friday in the front yard of a home in South Miami-Dade, police said.

Miami-Dade police said they found the bodies around 12:06 a.m. outside of the home at 20799 SW 234th St. Officers had received a 911 call about the shooting.

Fire-rescue determined both men died from their wounds, police said.

Police say they don’t know who shot them.

Anyone with information that can help with the investigation should call police.

This article will be updated.

This story was originally published January 7, 2022 at 8:40 AM.

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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