Woman faces charges in a South Beach shooting after surviving drug overdose

Monique Mori (MDCR)

MIAMI BEACH, Fla. – Monique Mori was in a fetal position and barely responsive while alone in an apartment in South Beach, police said. A friend told police officers she was suffering from a drug overdose.

Miami Beach Fire Rescue personnel rushed Mori on Saturday to Mount Sinai Medical Center.

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Mori, 33, survived. Officers arrested her on Tuesday and took her to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center where she remained on Wednesday afternoon.

Officers reported finding a pellet gun and a safe with heroin, cocaine, meth, alprazolam, oxycodone, and GHB in her apartment near the intersection of Pennsylvania Avenue and Ninth Street.

Mori is also a suspect in a shooting on Saturday near the intersection of Ninth Street and Euclid Avenue. No one was injured, but the front windshield of a 2015 blue Honda CRV was damaged.

A witness said Mori was arguing with a man, shot at him once, and ran away, according to the Miami Beach Police Department’s arrest form.

Mori is facing charges of attempted murder, aggravated assault with a firearm, discharging a firearm in public, possession of heroin with intent to sell, possession of cocaine with intent to sell, two counts of possession of a controlled substance, and oxycodone trafficking.


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