Man found dead in northwest Miami-Dade County

Police investigating death as homicide

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Police are investigating the death of a man in northwest Miami-Dade as a homicide.

Miami-Dade police said the victim was found dead Wednesday outside a home at 5120 NW 29th Ave.

Details of the homicide were not immediately released, but people in the neighborhood told Local 10 News reporter Amy Viteri that the victim is in his 20s and was shot more than a dozen times.

A woman who said she was the victim's girlfriend told Viteri that her boyfriend was "a good person."

"He didn't bother nobody," Antoinette said. "He didn't harm nobody at all."

It's unclear whether anyone has been taken into custody.

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