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Boy, 13, struck by stray bullet on Fourth of July in Miami-Dade

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July 5, 2024

Boy, 13, struck by stray bullet on Fourth of July in Miami-Dade

MIAMI — A 13-year-old boy was rushed to the hospital early Friday morning after he was struck by what appeared to be stray bullets the night of the Fourth of July.

Ljamyn Gray Jr. was brought into the hospital with a non-life-threatening bullet wound in his shoulder.

“My arm felt heavy and I looked at it and saw blood,” he told CBS News Miami.

Gray Jr. said he was with his friend on Independence Day when they were watching the fireworks near the apartment complex where he lives at Northwest 72nd Street and 14th Avenue. He was then shot at around 11:18 p.m., Miami-Dade Police told CBS News Miami.

“I ran to my dad and he pulled the bullet out,” Grey Jr. said.

“He came running around the corner, upstairs to me because I was sitting on the stairs in front of my porch,” said Ljamyn Gray Sr., the boy’s father. “He was like ‘Dad, something hit me in the arm!’”

When Gray Sr. took a closer look at his son’s injury, he saw the blood and found the bullet.

Video shared with CBS News Miami shows the Grays in the living room, tending to his wound with fireworks still exploding in the background, when the family decided to bring him to the hospital.

“It could have been a lot worse,” Gray Sr. said. “He could have been hit in the neck, in the head, in his chest, and he couldn’t have been here.”

“We have stray bullets that are just getting fired off,” he added. “Where young ages keep [getting] their hands on guns? How, we don’t know.”

Gray Jr. wasn’t the only person struck by a stray bullet on the Fourth of July — a 39-year-old woman was hospitalized in critical condition after she too was hit by one in Homestead.

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Former Titans GM mock Miami right tackle to the Cleveland Browns at 6

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April 18, 2026

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Former Titans GM mock Miami right tackle to the Cleveland Browns at 6

The Cleveland Browns traded for an extended right tackle, former Houston Texan Tytus Howard, at the start of free agency as they began their rebuild of the offensive line that was awful in 2025. But Howard has played every position on the offensive line except for center, so if it’s all about getting your best five on the field, which it should be, there’s a chance Howard doesn’t play at right tackle in 2026.

While doing a mock draft on Peter Schrager’s podcast, former Tennessee Titans general manager Ran Carthon had the Browns drafting Miami (FL) right tackle sixth overall. He talked about the issue with Howard, but said Mauigoa could either take over the tackle spot or be a really good guard.

Carthon said he knows that Mauigoa would be one of their best five, whether it is at guard or tackle. Some will say that a guy who may be best at guard isn’t worth the sixth overall pick, and I have to disagree. You should draft the best football players, and Francis Mauigoa is my highest-rated offensive lineman and seventh overall. It might be at guard, but I have a good feeling that Mauigoa will find a home in the NFL as a high-quality offensive lineman.

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Inventory drops for first time since 2023 as sales rebound across coastal Miami, beaches

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April 17, 2026

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Inventory drops for first time since 2023 as sales rebound across coastal Miami, beaches

Inventory of homes and condos across the coastal Miami mainland and Miami Beach and the barrier island markets fell in the first quarter, marking the first big inventory drops since 2023.

The Corcoran Group’s first quarter reports don’t cover all of Miami-Dade County, but they offer insight into how the coastal markets, which have a higher share of luxury properties, are performing.

In Miami Beach, Sunny Isles Beach, Bal Harbour, Bay Harbor Islands, Surfside, Miami Beach, Fisher Island and Key Biscayne, single-family home inventory dropped 15 percent annually to 398 listings, and condo inventory was down 13 percent to 3,919 listings.

On Miami’s coastal mainland markets, which include Aventura, Miami Shores, Upper East Side, Edgewater, downtown Miami, Brickell, Coral Gables and Coconut Grove, inventory slipped 4 percent to 4,584 condo listings and 555 single-family listings, down 6 percent year-over-year.

Here’s a closer look at the market:

Miami Beach and the barrier islands

Single-family sales rose 13 percent year-over-year to 85 closings, the first time they have increased since the second quarter of 2024. Condo closings rose 15 percent to 693 closings, the first increase since the last quarter of 2024.

Pricing dropped, with the median price of single-family homes down 4 percent to $3.5 million and the median condo price down 9 percent to $640,000. The average price per square foot was nearly flat at $1,119.

Still, buyers set records with their purchases. Billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg paid $170 million for the waterfront mansion at 7 Indian Creek Island Road, and Starbucks billionaire Howard Schultz paid $44 million, or $7,949 per square foot, for a penthouse at the Four Seasons Residences at The Surf Club.

Coastal mainland

Sales of single-family homes on the coastal mainland rose 16 percent to 220 closings. While markets like Coral Gables experienced declines in condo and single-family home sales, Coconut Grove home sales surged — up over 100 percent for single-family homes to 47 closings and up 55 percent to 87 condo closings. Condo sales rose 13 percent to 759 closings.

The median price of single-family homes across the coastal mainland rose 11 percent to just over $2 million. The median price of condos increased slightly, up 1 percent, to $602,000.

The priciest deals in the first quarter were the $32 million trade of 12 Tahiti Beach Island Road in Coral Gables, and the $19.8 million sale of a penthouse at Vita at Grove Isle.

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