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A woman who witnesses say was shot and then thrown from a vehicle and onto the roadway this week in Hallandale Beach has died, authorities said. Hallandale Beach Police responded at around 4:20 a.m. Tuesday to an injured person on the south side of Pembroke Road Lequan Payne told NBC6 he was riding his bike when he saw a car drive up and a woman falling to the ground face down. “Like, she tried to take a step and then

There was heavy police presence in a Miami Gardens neighborhood Friday after reports of a shooting and a pedestrian struck at a nearby location. Miami Gardens Police first reported to the area of Northwest 179th Terrace and Northwest 6th Court for reports of a possible shooting, with police scanner audio indicating a woman had been shot. Police later received another call for a possible pedestrian struck on Northwest 6th Place. At this time, it is unclear if the two incidents

 30-year-old Tampa man died Wednesday morning when his car flew over a concrete barrier along the Lee Roy Selmon Expressway onto a downtown Tampa intersection, the Florida Highway Patrol said. The man was driving the wrong way, east on the expressway’s westbound lanes, when he crashed around 2:10 a.m. He was trying to exit the expressway on the entrance ramp at Tampa Street when his 2014 Chevrolet Sonic flipped over a concrete barrier. The man died at the scene. He

A tourist suffered a hard hit outside a South Beach ticket agency, and the sudden strike was caught on camera. The violent welcome to Miami Beach was how a Chilean tourist was greeted on Friday morning as he looked to book a tour at a kiosk offering a fun South Florida excursion. “Unprovoked, without warning and not a word said, just a shot to the face,” said the victim, who asked not to be identified or show his face on

A Leesburg man remains in jail without bond following his arrest last month on a warrant charging him with injuring three people in a crash. Kelvin Maurice Williams, 36, was arrested in late February when it was discovered his drunk reckless driving caused the accident and the hospitalization of three others involved in the crash.  On April 20, 2023, a state trooper responded to the scene of a traffic crash at State Road 44 and Morse Boulevard in Wildwood, according

Photo by: fox13news A man was shot and killed in Bloomingdale after a domestic altercation, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. According to HCSO, they received a call just after midnight on Monday reporting a person who was dead after a domestic dispute.  Deputies arrived to the 3000 block of Polumbo Drive to find a man with upper body trauma.  The sheriff’s office reported this is an isolated incident, and there is no threat to the public. This is an active

Photo by: tampa bay Prosecutors have dismissed the criminal case against a man police arrested on two charges of vehicular homicide after he ran a red light and killed two people in St. Petersburg late last year. Owen Gardner Whittaker, 21, was arrested the day of the Dec. 9 crash on Fourth Street North at 72nd Avenue North. St. Petersburg police said Whittaker had been driving at 72 mph in a 45-mph zone when he ran a red light while making an

Photo by: news4jax A man was killed in a hit-and-run crash Friday night in the Woodland Acres neighborhood, according to the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office. The crash happened around 8 p.m. Friday on Arlington Road. JSO said a man, in his late 40s, was walking westbound across Arlington Road and was hit by a car traveling southbound in the outside lane. The car “immediately” left the scene by making a U-turn to turn onto eastbound Lillian Road, and was last seen

he case against Nassau County deputy killer, Patrick McDowell, is once again set to go before a judge Monday. This comes ahead of McDowell’s sentencing trial which is currently scheduled to start in April. McDowell pleaded guilty to shooting and killing Deputy Joshua Moyers during a traffic stop in 2021. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against McDowell. In late February, McDowell attended a court hearing in his case, sitting just feet away from Deputy Moyers’ family. Dozens of people have been added to the

The Clay County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a fight between a group of juveniles at Orange Park Mall Saturday night and a series of gunshots that were heard nearby, deputies said. Officials said deputies who were working off-duty began disbursing and trespassing a group of juveniles who were creating a disturbance. On-duty deputies were called to assist with the disbursement. Investigators said as the crowd was moved into the parking lot near the AMC Movie Theatre, a series of gunshots were heard

The search is on for the driver of a gray or silver 2020 Honda Civic that was caught on dashcam video slamming into a motorcyclist, Florida Highway Patrol says. Just after midnight Friday morning, the Civic driver is accused of intentionally ramming into a 52-year-old motorcyclist from Leesburg in the northbound lanes of Interstate 75 near milepost 319 in Sumter County. “The motorcyclist passed a commercial vehicle on the outside shoulder while the Honda passed in the center lane,” FHP said in a

Photo by: news4jax A man died and a woman was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries following a crash on Chaffee Road Sunday morning, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The crash happened around 5 a.m. north of Falkland Road, near the Jax Public Library West Branch. According to FHP, a 61-year-old woman driving a sedan was approaching an SUV north on Chaffee Road. Officials said the SUV was involved in a prior crash and was blocking the north