Five people in Miami are dead in what police are saying was a murder-suicide that happened early Sunday morning.

Miami police said they sent officers to a home at SW 38th Court shortly after midnight after receiving several 911 calls from neighbors who heard gunshots coming from the home, local television station CBS 4 reported.

Miami-Dade County police found four bodies, victims of a murder-suicide, inside a south Miami-Dade home on Wednesday morning.

The dead were identified as former tenor and piano teacher Pablo Josue Amador, 54; his wife, Maria, 47; and daughters Rosa and Priscila age 13 and 14. One son, Javier, 16, survived by running out of the house. Another daughter, Beula Beatriz, 20, a student at the University of Miami, also survived.

The Florida Highway Patrol said thousands of different types of shoes were scattered along the Palmetto Expressway which caused heavy traffic jam during early Friday morning rush hour.

According to Lt. Pat Santangelo, there were work boots, bath and beach slippers, and tennis rubber shoes were found on the highway disrupting traffic delays.

Two days after a frantic search for a missing six-month-old boy, the woman who reported him missing confessed that the boy never existed, and her story was all a hoax to lure back her ex-boyfriend.

Meagan McCormick had told Miami police last Tuesday that her son, Riley Archer Buchness had disappeared with his nanny Camille, the Miami Herald reported. But neither Camille nor Riley ever existed, police say, and the whole story was a ruse to get ex-boyfriend John Buchness back into her life.

While federal officials in Washington are trying out different approaches to reduce foreclosures such as modifying mortgage loan terms, a Miami resident is applying his own unique solution to twin problems besetting many states - homelessness and foreclosed houses.

Tapping the Internet and volunteer teams, Max Rameau uses his Take Back the Land Foundation to match the homeless with vacant units that were foreclosed. Since January he has helped six families find temporary dwellings, although his efforts are expected to generate controversy. So far, federal, state and local officials have not stopped him.