An attempted murder-suicide in southwest Miami-Dade Friday morning left a wife dead and her husband in the hospital.
Miami-Dade Police responded to a home near Southwest 133rd Avenue and 20th Street around 12:09AM after an unidentified 40-year-old man shot his 37-year-old wife to death in the backyard of their home; while the couple's 13-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son were inside.
Police say the husband then shot himself in an attempted suicide.
The daughter called police, and the father was rushed to Kendall Regional Hospital in critical condition.
Investigators have not released the identity of the victims or the motive behind the shooting.