{"id":14132,"date":"2025-10-21T16:18:19","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:18:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14132\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T16:18:19","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T16:18:19","slug":"murder-suspect-in-officer-chirino-case-appears-in-court-ahead-of-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/14132\/","title":{"rendered":"Murder suspect in Officer Chirino case appears in court ahead of trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM<\/p>\n<p>Murder suspect in Officer Chirino case appears in court ahead of trial <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Jason Banegas, accused of killing Hollywood Police Officer Yandy Chirino in 2021, appeared in court Monday as his murder trial approaches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Banegas, now 22, was 18 when he allegedly shot Chirino during a struggle while the officer responded to a report of car break-ins. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say Banegas was armed with a stolen gun and later confessed, claiming he meant to shoot himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In court, defense attorneys argued several pretrial motions, including requests to separate charges and limit certain evidence. A judge ruled that the jury will be death-qualified, meaning it may consider the death penalty if Banegas is convicted.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Terrell Forney\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/7b28e33c-d75f-4d1a-87.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Terrell Forney<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Terrell Forney joined Local 10 News in October 2005 as a general assignment reporter. He was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, but a desire to escape the harsh winters of the north brought him to South Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0October 20, 2025 at 5:55 PM Murder suspect in Officer Chirino case appears in court ahead of trial&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-14132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132","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=14132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}