{"id":421851,"date":"2026-10-08T03:00:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421851\/"},"modified":"2026-10-08T03:00:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T03:00:24","slug":"man-injured-after-accidentally-shooting-himself-at-bus-stop-in-north-miami-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/421851\/","title":{"rendered":"Man injured after accidentally shooting himself at bus stop in North Miami &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">NORTH MIAMI, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A scare at a bus stop landed a man in the hospital after he accidentally shot himself while getting off a Miami-Dade transit bus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">North Miami Police responded to the area of Northeast Sixth Avenue on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said that as the man exited the bus, his firearm, believed to be in his waistband, accidentally discharged and struck him in the groin area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Witnesses told 7News that they heard the gun shot and saw the injured man running off near a 7Eleven.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officers flooded the area, taped off the bus stop, and began interviewing witnesses and combing the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The man was ultimately found, and paramedics rushed him to HCA Florida Aventura Hospital. His condition is unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Detectives found the firearm and secured it, according to police audio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Officials called the transit bus back to the incident location as additional law enforcement arrived and began investigating the bus and the surrounding area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of late Wednesday night, an investigation into the firearm discharge remains underway.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NORTH MIAMI, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; A scare at a bus stop landed a man in the hospital after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421852,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-421851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}