Woman shot while sitting inside car outside home in northwest Miami-Dade

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MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. – A woman was hospitalized Tuesday night after she was shot while sitting inside a vehicle outside a home in northwest Miami-Dade, authorities confirmed.

According to Miami-Dade police, the shooting occurred in the 1000 block of Northwest 77th Street.

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Detective Alvaro Zabaleta, who is also a spokesman for the police department, said officers arrived at the scene to find a woman who had been shot in the lower extremity.

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Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel transported her to Jackson Memorial Hospital’s Ryder Trauma Center in stable condition.

“Preliminary information reveals that several subject(s) approached the victim, opened fire and fled in a vehicle in an unknown direction,” Zabaleta said in an email to Local 10 News.

No other details were immediately released.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.


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