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Police: 1 dead, 1 injured, 1 detained after shooting in southern Miami-Dade

This Google Street View shows the area where there was a shooting on Sunday in Miami-Dade County's Princeton neighborhood. (GOOGLE MAPS)

MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. ā€“ A man died and another man was injured after a fight devolved into a shooting on Sunday afternoon in southern Miami-Dade County.

The crime scene was in an agricultural mixed-use area in Miami-Dadeā€™s Princeton neighborhood with greenhouses and nurseries. According to Detective Angel Rodriguez, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, police officers responded to the area of Southwest 240 Street and Naranja Road.

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Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel also responded and declared a man dead and took the man injured to a nearby hospital. According to Rodriguez, his condition was critical. Detectives detained another man.

ā€œThe three were involved in an altercation which escalated when a firearm was produced and shots were fired,ā€ Rodriguez wrote in an e-mail.

Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477.

Local 10 News Assignment Desk Editor Mercedes Cevallos contributed to this report.


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The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.

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