Crime

Kids find their mother and a man shot to death in a Miami Gardens home. What happened?

Two siblings found their mother and her boyfriend shot to death inside a Miami Gardens home on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, police say.
Two siblings found their mother and her boyfriend shot to death inside a Miami Gardens home on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2023, police say. Getty Images/iStockphoto

Two siblings coming home from school on Tuesday afternoon found their mother and her boyfriend shot to death in Miami Gardens, police say.

Around 2:30 p.m., Miami Gardens officers rushed to a home in the 4500 block of Northwest 185th Street, where they found a man and a woman with gunshot wounds, police spokeswoman Diana Delgado-Gourgue said in a news release. The two were later pronounced dead on scene.

“Preliminary investigation revealed two juvenile siblings arrived home and discovered their mother and her boyfriend inside the home unresponsive,” Delgado-Gourgue said. “A firearm was located on the scene near the adult male.”

This developing story will be updated as more information becomes available.

This story was originally published September 12, 2023 at 8:53 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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