{"id":126428,"date":"2026-01-21T14:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126428\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:22:08","slug":"4-suspects-arrested-after-2-teens-shot-in-gated-opa-locka-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/126428\/","title":{"rendered":"4 suspects arrested after 2 teens shot in gated Opa-locka community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 21, 2026 at 9:05 AM<\/p>\n<p>Victims showing signs of improvement, police saylead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/IIWSM4XSYVBGHJM3TA6SWSKQHM.jpeg\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/>(WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OPA-LOCKA, Fla.  \u2014 Four suspects have been arrested after<a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/20\/police-swarm-gated-community-in-opa-locka\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/20\/police-swarm-gated-community-in-opa-locka\/\"> two 14-year-olds were shot Tuesday morning<\/a> inside a gated townhome community in Opa-locka, authorities announced Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the shooting occurred inside the Sailboat Cove community, at the corner of Northwest 17th Avenue and 143rd Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said both teens, who were airlifted to Jackson Memorial Hospital\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center, were initially listed in critical but stable condition, but are showing signs of improvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A third victim was evaluated at the scene by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel but declined to be transported to the hospital, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said a witness has been \u201ccooperating with investigators and providing valuable information to aid the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A motive for the shooting remains unclear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The suspects\u2019 ages and identities have not yet been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe Opa-locka Police Department commends the swift actions of its officers, whose collaboration with the CID was instrumental in bringing about a rapid resolution of this incident,\u201d the police department said in a statement Wednesday. \u201cThe Opa-locka Police Department remains committed to serving and protecting the residents of Opa-locka. The safety and well-being of community remains a top priority and we are committed to ensuring a comprehensive investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 21, 2026 at 9:05 AM Victims showing signs of improvement, police saylead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(WPLG) OPA-LOCKA, Fla. \u2014 Four suspects&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126429,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-126428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}