Miami, FL
Man dies in reported shootout with Miami Police in Little Havana
MIAMI – Miami Police say they shot and killed a man Tuesday afternoon during an encounter in which he was shooting in the air and towards buildings.
They say the incident happened at 12:48 p.m. at S.W. 5th Ave. and 3rd St. in Little Havana and they responded after reports of the unidentified man firing the weapon.
Police Chief Manny Morales went to the scene and said, “We started receiving several 911 calls depicting a male who was armed shooting not only in the air but towards a building. We had units in the area who were getting there 4 or 5 minutes afterwards.”
Morales said, “There was some sort of encounter and shots were fired by both, several officers. The offender was struck and pronounced dead on the scene.”
Morales said his comments were based on preliminary information and said the man who was shot lived in the area. His name has not been released.
Neighbor Rosa Veres said, “I am very very nervous. This has never ever happened here before. I heard 6 shots and it sounded like fireworks.”
Another neighbor, Nancy Montero, said “I am very very shocked at this time. This is something that never happened in this neighborhood. This is a very quiet neighborhood.”
Montero said, “I was in my apartment when all of a sudden I heard a lot of commotion and I went downstairs and all of my neighbors were in shock. They said there was a shooting and a guy is dead.”
Montero said, “Everything is now under control and at peace and that makes me feel good because this kind of thing has never happened in this area that is a very quiet and safe neighborhood and as I said I am in shock.”
It is not clear what prompted this incident.
Police said two officers fired their weapons.
FDLE, the Florida Department of Law Enforcement, is investigating the shooting which is standard procedure.
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.
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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