Knife-wielding man stabs two Miami-Dade officers, cops say. They’ve been hospitalized
By Michelle Marchante and
Devoun Cetoute
Two Miami-Dade police officers were stabbed early Wednesday while confronting a man armed with a knife.
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Two Miami-Dade police officers were stabbed while confronting a knife-wielding man early Wednesday.
Sylvester Thomas, 51, was charged with aggravated battery on an officer, resisting an officer with violence and two counts of attempted second-degree murder.
Around 12:48 a.m., the officers were called about a man threatening to hurt others in a home with a knife, in the 300 block of Northwest 157th Street, according to Miami-Dade police.
Upon officers entering the house, authorities say Thomas attacked them with the knife.
A female officer who has worked with the department for a year was stabbed in the neck and upper torso. A male officer, who’s been on the force for 16 years, was stabbed in the arm, police said.
The male cop was taken to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center while the woman officer was airlifted there by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.
Both are in stable condition.
This story was originally published August 24, 2022 at 6:52 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
