Police: 1 dead, 2 injured after shooting in Miami-Dade’s Palmetto Estates

PALMETTO ESTATES, Fla. – Detectives were investigating a fatal shooting on Friday in Miami-Dade County’s Palmetto Estates neighborhood, according to Miami-Dade Fire Rescue.

Detective Angel Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, reported detectives recovered a firearm after a woman and a man were wounded and a man died of “an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.”

Police officers and fire rescue personnel responded at about 4:20 p.m., to a house near the intersection of Southwest 165 Terrace and 99 Avenue.

Fire Rescue personnel took the two injured to the Jackson South Medical Center’s Ryder Trauma Center. Rodriguez reported their condition was critical.

“There was another adult female on the scene who was not injured,” Rodriguez wrote adding, “The familial ties have not been determined.

Detectives were asking anyone with information about the case to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

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Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report.

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