Miami police say overnight carjackers drove this Hyundai into the building at the corner of Southwest 22nd Avenue and Third Street in Little Havana, Sunday, July 27, 2025.
DAVID J. NEAL
dneal@miamiherald.com
Southwest 22nd Avenue in Miami is fully open again in both directions after a few blocks in Little Havana were closed Sunday morning while police said they were searching for carjackers.
Three people have been detained, as of 9 a.m. Sunday morning.
Police didn’t need to search for the car — it sat, doors open, smashed into an empty commercial building’s Southwest 22nd Avenue and Fourth Street corner, a block south of the Publix Sabor. The journey to that end, police say, began at Southwest 17th Avenue and Fifth Street around 1:52 a.m. with the carjacking.
Southbound Southwest 22nd Avenue was closed from Second Street to Eighth Street and northbound lanes were shut down at Southwest Eighth Street. Officers heavily searched an area around the Columbus on Fifth high rise apartment building, 514 SW 22nd Ave.
This story will be updated as more is learned.
The crash of the carjacked car at Southwest 22nd Avenue and Fourth Street didn’t interrupt the Sunday morning routine for the nearby Little Havana chickens and chicken families. DAVID J. NEAL dneal@miamiherald.com
Since 1989, David J. Neal’s domain at the Miami Herald has expanded to include writing about Panthers (NHL and FIU), Dolphins, old school animation, food safety, fraud, naughty lawyers, bad doctors and all manner of breaking news. He drinks coladas whole. He does not work Indianapolis 500 Race Day.
