MIAMI – Police in Miami-Dade County are investigating a stabbing incident.

It happened just before 7:30 p.m. Wednesday along the 100 block of Northeast 54th Street in Miami’s Little Haiti neighborhood.

According to authorities, responding officers arrived to find an injured man.

Miami Fire Rescue crews rushed the man to Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital.

Police said they are working to locate the person responsible for the stabbing.

There has been no update on the victim’s health status.

Chop Robinson keeps learning lessons as he prepares for his first NFL season with the Miami Dolphins, and he got a good challenge assignment.

When the Dolphins practiced with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers on Wednesday, Robinson found himself going head-to-head with Tristan Wirfs — former first-round pick, owner of a recent lucrative contract extension — in a series of reps pitting pass rushers against offensive linemen.

Robinson had one great rep in which he cleanly beat Wirfs by getting under his pads and overpowering him, though in the final analysis, they probably split their handful of reps.

The outcome, though, didn’t matter as much as Robinson was able to get out of that work because great competition only makes players better.

“I mean, for me, coming into this practice, after working my fastball, my swiping, everything like that, I really just wanted to peek into other things, like using power and stuff like that to set up my fastball whenever,” Robinson said. “So I was just sitting down with Coach [Ryan] Crowe, talking about that before we came out here. Came out here and started working different things and I was able to get underneath his pads but he’s a hell of a player. He was talking to me out there saying some things I did good, some things on how I hit him. So it was just it was just a back-and-forth competition, so I’m just getting better and I’m able to I’m blessed to be able to learn from him.”

Robinson learned something from Wirfs in this joint practice and earned the Bucs tackle’s respect — if he didn’t already have it.

“I mean, he just sees something great in me,” Chop said. “That’s what he said. And, of course, he’s great. He just got paid a lot. So I’m just excited to learn.”

The Dolphins’ first-round pick in the 2024 NFL draft continues to get a lot of work this training camp as he prepares for what could be a big role in his rookie season.

It’s not facing Wirfs that’s providing lessons, though. Robinson is finding out that life in the NFL is a bit different than in college.

“I feel like in the NFL, some running backs are very patient, and they’re able to hit the hole very quickly,” Robinson said. “And in college, it’s like running backs get the ball [and] they just wanna go. So that’s the biggest difference between here and college. So I’m just learning from that, play by play, especially with our offense. And we got the great backs, so I’m just learning every single day.

“The biggest challenge for me was, I’ll say, just the speed and just learning the game, that’s it. Just in college, you’re just as fast as everybody. And here, it’s like some of the offense linemen are faster than you, so it’s just different, but I’m learning day by day from the first day of camp until now. I feel like I got way better with that.”

Facing Wirfs was just another big step in that process.

It was like a wow moment for Robinson, another realization that he’s living the dream of being in the NFL.

“I mean, when I went up against them, I was just like, it’s crazy that I get to go against him,” Robinson said. “But it still hasn’t hit me yet because I’m still competing and I’m grinding every single day. I feel like maybe once I get a little break or something, it’ll probably hit me.”

MIAMI — For decades a neighborhood in Miami known as Little Haiti has been the center of the Haitian community. But what’s made the area so unique now has the attention of developers.

A filmmaker wanted to document the changes and highlight the struggles of people living there — and it’s all part of a film released this month.

The film Mountains tells the story of a family that’s experiencing the changes firsthand in Little Haiti. It’s shot with a Haitian American cast with dialogue in Haitian Creole and is being released nationwide this month.

Little Haiti is a neighborhood known for the colorful storefronts of convenience stores, restaurants and botanicas lining Miami’s Second Avenue. People sit on chairs outside the stores and their homes as the occasional rooster struts by. Haitians fleeing poverty and political repression began coming here in the 1970s and ’80s. It wasn’t until 2016 though, that Miami officially designated the neighborhood “Little Haiti.”

It’s the setting for the first full-length feature by Haitian American filmmaker Monica Sorelle. At Choublak, a coffee shop and visitor’s center in Little Haiti, Sorelle told NPR in an interview, “We actually shot here. The scene where Esperanza’s on her walk and stops at the vendor. It was here.”

Sorelle spent a lot of time in Little Haiti when she was growing up. Developers have long been eyeing this area. But redevelopment moved into high gear over the last decade after they transformed an adjacent neighborhood, Wynwood, into a wealthier arts and nightlife district.

Sorelle saw it happening in Little Haiti when she returned to Miami after film school in 2014. “I started realizing and noticing the changes in the neighborhood,” she says. “And started seeing a lot of the same developers that were working in Wynwood were buying up properties in Little Haiti.”

Sorelle’s film opens with scenes of crews using heavy machinery to demolish buildings in the neighborhood. It’s the kind of thing she was seeing daily there and in Wynwood where she was working at the time.

One day, Sorelle noticed demolition workers ending their day and one crossing the street as he walked back home. She says, “The question came up, like what if he lives over there and he crosses the street to demolish his own neighborhood and redevelop his own neighborhood?”

That idea grew into the script for Mountains. A Miami nonprofit, Oolite Arts, provided important funding for a microbudget film with a Haitian American cast.

Shooting it in Haitian Creole made it difficult to find financial backers. Robert Colom, who co-wrote the script and produced the film, says, “A big production company that we met with in New York said, ‘We can make this together for $2 million and in English and with stars.’ It just wasn’t the idea that we had for this film. To be able to tell an authentic story about an experience of Little Haiti, I think we had to do it in the way that we did.”

The film’s title, Mountains, is taken from a Haitian proverb, “Behind mountains, there are more mountains.” It’s a nod to the challenges the story’s main character, Xavier, and all immigrants face as they adapt to a new country. Sorelle says, “That looks like, if I work hard, I will be able to provide. And I will be able to climb. And he has worked hard and he has been able to provide. And he has a house, you know. But the minute he wants more, that’s when he starts to realize that it’s not as accessible to him as he thought.” In the film, Xavier becomes frustrated with his inability to move his family into a bigger home.

An important part of the movie, and Haitian culture, is rara, an impromptu street parade with music that harks back to the revolution that brought Haiti its independence. Sorelle says raras used to happen almost every Friday. “You would be in your home. And then you would just hear the distant sound of a drum or a horn,” she says. “And all of a sudden, there’s like this beautiful, spontaneous street parade that a lot of Haitians would join in on.” Rara parades are less common in Little Haiti now, another sign of the changing neighborhood.

Little Haiti’s days may be numbered, but the Haitian American community has long since established a strong presence in several other neighborhoods and cities in South Florida. Sorelle is philosophical about the changes, saying: “These are just buildings after all. But I think what concerns me is that it’s a disrespect of what the Haitian community has given. And the minute it’s economically viable, there’s no use for these people anymore.”

Sorelle’s film, Mountains, opened in Miami and is playing at independent theaters this month and next in Florida and other areas around the country.

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