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I-95 car-to-car shooting in Broward leaves one man dead and a woman injured, BSO says

A man was killed and a woman was wounded during a car-to-car shooting on Interstate 95 in Broward County on March 5, 2023, according to authorities.
A man was killed and a woman was wounded during a car-to-car shooting on Interstate 95 in Broward County on March 5, 2023, according to authorities. Getty Images/iStockphoto

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Interstate 95 shootings in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area

The car-to-car shootings have become a not uncommon occurrence November 2022.

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A car-to-car shooting on Interstate 95 in Broward County left a man dead and a woman with a gunshot wound during the early hours of Sunday morning, authorities said.

The Florida Highway Patrol and Fort Lauderdale police officers arrived around 1:30 a.m. to the northbound lanes of I-95 at Broward Boulevard where the occupants of a vehicle had shot people inside another car, the Broward Sheriff’s Office said Sunday night in a news release. There officers found a man and a woman with gunshot wounds in a silver Mercedes.

The man, who was driving the Mercedes, was pronounced dead on scene and the woman, a passenger, was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound.

BSO detectives are handling the investigation.

Authorities didn’t release additional details.

Anyone with information on this shooting is asked to call Homicide Detective John Curcio at 954-321-4212 or submit a tip through the SaferWatch App. If you wish to remain anonymous, you are encouraged to contact Broward Crime Stoppers by dialing 954-493-TIPS (8477) or going online to browardcrimestoppers.org.

This story was originally published March 5, 2023 at 8:41 PM.

Omar Rodríguez Ortiz
Miami Herald
Omar is a bilingual and bicultural journalist, covering breaking news in South Florida for the Miami Herald. He has a master’s degree in journalism from the University of Texas at Austin and a bachelor’s degree in education from the Universidad de Puerto Rico en Río Piedras.
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Interstate 95 shootings in the Miami-Fort Lauderdale area

The car-to-car shootings have become a not uncommon occurrence November 2022.