An investigation is underway after man died in police custody.
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An investigation is underway after a 42-year-old man died while in police custody at an auto parts store in Miami-Dade County.
Miami-Dade police say the course of events happened around 6 p.m. Sunday at the Auto Zone store, 9439 SW 56th St. in Kendall. Police said they responded to reports that a man was “being violent and throwing items.”
When officers arrived, they took him into custody. He then “became unresponsive” and officers began trying to resuscitate him, police said. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue took him to Baptist Hospital, where he was declared dead.
Police say there is no evidence of use of force, according to Miami Herald news partner CBS Miami.
The Miami Herald has contacted Miami-Dade police for more information.
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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