Crime

1 killed in shooting at a parking lot, next to a tennis court in Miami Gardens, police say

A police investigation is underway in Miami Gardens early Friday.
A police investigation is underway in Miami Gardens early Friday.

An investigation into a deadly shooting is underway in the parking lot of a Miami Gardens apartment complex, police said Friday.

Miami Gardens police said they found a man with a gunshot wound shortly before 6:40 a.m. in the 1400 block of Northwest 210th Street, next to Florida’s Turnpike. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue determined he was shot to death, police said.

Helicopter video taken by TV news showed police and paramedics in a parking lot, next to a tennis court. The man’s body was covered by a yellow tarp.

No other information was immediately available.

This report will be updated.

This story was originally published April 1, 2022 at 8:49 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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