Shooting leaves man injured near El Portal

Police lights. (KPRC/File)

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – Miami-Dade detectives are investigating a shooting Friday night near El Portal.

According to Detective Lee Cowart, a spokesman of the Miami-Dade Police Department, officers responded about 9:30 p.m. to Northwest 83rd Street and Northwest Sixth Avenue.

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Officers found a man injured. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel took the man to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center.

Officers are asking anyone with information to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.


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Janine Stanwood joined Local 10 News in February 2004 as an assignment editor. She is now a general assignment reporter. Before moving to South Florida from her Washington home, Janine was the senior legislative correspondent for a United States senator on Capitol Hill.