A teen was killed and another was wounded early Friday in South Miami-Dade when a dispute between family members escalated into gunfire, police said.
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A teen was killed and another was wounded early Friday in South Miami-Dade when a dispute among family members escalated into gunfire, police said.
The shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. in the 12800 block of Southwest 263rd Terrace.
Miami-Dade police said an 18-year-old man and a 17-year-old girl were shot.
The 18-year-old was airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital in critical condition, where he died from his wounds, police said. The 17-year-old girl was taken to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital in stable condition.
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