Cop shoots man armed with knife near Miami hospital

A Miami officer shot a man armed with a knife near Jackson Memorial Hospital on Friday morning, according to authorities.

The shooting, at Northwest 17th Street and Eighth Avenue, happened shortly before 10 a.m., Miami police said.

Officer Michael Vega, a police spokesman, said reports came in about two men fighting, and one of them had a knife.

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