{"id":128546,"date":"2026-01-23T01:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128546\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:14:07","slug":"man-faces-charges-years-after-2-murders-in-miamis-overtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128546\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces charges years after 2 murders in Miami\u2019s Overtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 A 28-year-old man appeared in Miami-Dade County court on Thursday to face charges in two murders that happened when he was 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives used Instagram, cell phone data, surveillance video, and a rental car to identify Ernest Rowell as one of two shooters, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives accused Rowell of fatally shooting Deandre McKeithen and Rayford Shipman III on Nov. 6, 2022, in Miami, records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMiami Real Time Crime Center cameras captured the incident,\u201d a detective wrote about the two shooters arriving and fleeing in a black Mercedes-Benz four-door sedan with a Miami Heat license plate, according to an arrest warrant.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/646S64ZEWZGWNECFQFCNKI6TAA.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"264\"\/>Overtown These images are evidence in a double murder case against Ernest Rowell in Miami-Dade County, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A ShotSpotter alert shortly after 8:25 p.m. prompted police to find McKeithen, 28, and Shipman, 37, lying on the sidewalk in Overtown, records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fire rescue personnel took both men to Jackson Memorial Hospital\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center. A doctor pronounced McKeithen dead about 30 minutes later, and Shipman shortly after 9:05 p.m., records show. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A crime scene technician found 28 spent 7.62 mm bullet casings at the <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/JDbGvckAW4EZWDsG8\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/JDbGvckAW4EZWDsG8\">corner of Northwest Fifth Avenue and Eighth Street<\/a>, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives used surveillance video to track the owner of the Mercedes-Benz and cell phone records to connect Rowell to Boynton Beach and the crime scene in Miami, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On June 8, 2023, Palm Beach Sheriff\u2019s Office deputies searched Rowell\u2019s home. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A detective seized an iPhone 11 and an iPhone 13, and the U.S. Secret Service assisted with the forensic investigation, according to police <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Aug. 3, 2023, a Miami detective received a selfie from one of the iPhones. It had been taken shortly after 9:20 p.m. on Nov. 7 in Miami, according to a warrant<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe hoodie matches the description,\u201d a detective wrote about the selfie and Miami Real Time Crime Center surveillance video, according to an arrest warrant issued in Miami-Dade on Dec. 19.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade prosecutors filed a case against Rowell on Jan. 14, and he was arrested on Wednesday, according to county court records. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade corrections booked Rowell shortly before midnight on Wednesday, and he faced two counts of first-degree murder when he appeared in bond court on Thursday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A judge denied him bond, and he remained at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade County Circuit Judge Carlos H. Gamez was set to preside over the case. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Carson Merlo contributed to this report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 A 28-year-old man appeared in Miami-Dade County court on Thursday to face charges in two murders&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-128546","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\/128546","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=128546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}