MIAMI-DADE POLICE

Cops: Motorist shot vagrant

A homeless man was shot dead, police believe, by a motorist who had argued with him on an expressway off-ramp.

BY DAVID OVALLE

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Michael K. Harrington, 35, lived under an expressway overpass and earned money by panhandling motorists, washing their windshields and making them laugh with funny cardboard signs.

Then he approached the wrong motorist.

Police believe that a motorist who had quarreled with Harrington on Tuesday returned seven hours later, unleashing a hail of gunfire on the homeless man at Northwest 27th Avenue and the Airport Expressway off-ramp.

Harrington staggered into the intersection, collapsed and died. [More...]