Miami police swarmed a neighborhood early Thursday morning after a man and woman were shot. 

It happened on NW 11th Street, just south of the State Road 836 Expressway.

Miami police said they got word of the shooting around 12:40 a.m.

"We received a call of two people shot at this location. Once our officers arrived on scene, they located a male and a female who had both been shot," Miami police Officer Michael Vega said. 

Both were taken to the Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition. Vega said the gunman fled before officers arrived.   

A woman who lives in the area said when she looked out her window after hearing gunshots, she saw a man "walking, lifting his leg and he was talking with another man, the shooter, and he shot him." She added that she didn't initially see the woman who was shot, but thinks her injury was more serious because she was laying on the ground by the car. 

Mauricio Castro said he too heard the gunshots.

"Well, I heard several shots, and I heard a woman yelling about the pain. But I was too sleepy, so I didn't go out. The shots simply woke me up, but I was not going to outside if it was something violent. This zone is not very safe," Castro said.  

"We believe that this might be domestic. We're still investigating it, but we know that there was a group that was outside the house. They were talking and having a good time, when the suspect, in this case, a male, produces a firearm, unprovoked, and shoots both victims. He then flees the scene," Vega said. 

He said they are trying to identify him and determine what his relationship was with the man and woman. 

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