Sheriff’s deputies arrested a man in Pinellas County who they say was smuggling illegal drugs in his pants.
Miami Herald file
Miami Herald file
A man killed his girlfriend and wounded her 14-year-old son before shooting himself at their Hialeah Gardens apartment, police said.
The tragedy unfurled around 10 p.m. Sunday in a second-floor apartment at 9805 W. Okeechobee Rd., according to Miami-Dade police, which is handling the investigation.
The 51-year-old man and the teen were taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center. The man is in critical condition and the teen is in stable condition, police said. His mother died in the apartment.
Police say the three lived together. The teen was the 44-year-old woman’s son. Police say they don’t know why the boyfriend shot them.
No other information was immediately available. If you can help with the investigation, call police.
This article will be updated.
This story was originally published January 10, 2022 at 7:33 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
