A man was found shot dead inside a car in Miami-Dade. Detectives searching for clues

A man was found shot dead inside a car in a Northwest Miami-Dade neighborhood, police said.

The overnight homicide investigation has stretched into Friday morning, with detectives searching for clues on who killed him in the area of Northwest 99th Terrace and 25th Avenue.

Miami-Dade police said they responded to the area around 11:20 p.m. Thursday after receiving a ShotSpotter alert, a system that notifies officers to gunfire in an area.

When officers arrived, they found a man with gunshot wounds inside a car. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue determined he died from his wounds.

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

This article will be updated.

Michelle Marchante

Miami Herald

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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