{"id":153362,"date":"2026-02-12T19:20:12","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153362\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T19:20:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:20:12","slug":"2-teenage-suspects-in-west-broward-murder-arrested-in-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/153362\/","title":{"rendered":"2 teenage suspects in west Broward murder arrested in Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 12, 2026 at 1:57 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-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\/02\/FP6QRRRTDRH2BOAMQKAUW2GIIE.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Jayden DeJesus and Trevon Quinones Mugshots for Jayden DeJesus, 19, and Trevon Quinones, 19. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">BROWARD COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office announced two arrests in connection to a murder that occurred late last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to BSO, deputies responding to the West Broward Boat Ramp located at 3451 N. U.S. 27 on the morning on Sunday, Feb. 1 found a deceased man inside a vehicle. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That man was later identified as 22-year-old Hunter Howell, and detectives ruled his death a homicide, saying they believe it occurred the previous day on Jan. 31. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After an extensive investigation, detectives identified Jayden DeJesus, 19, of Miami and Trevon Quinones, 19, of Forney, Texas, as suspects in the murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both suspects were taken into custody on Wednesday following a traffic stop in Kaufman County, Texas. BSO and the U.S. Marshals Office assisted the Kaufman County Sheriff\u2019s Office in the arrests. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police did not say if or how the suspects and the victim were acquainted. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DeJesus and Quinones were booked into a Kaufman County jail on charges of first-degree murder and tampering with or fabricating physical evidence, and both men are expected to be extradited to Broward County. <\/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=\"David Dwork\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 12, 2026 at 1:57 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandJayden DeJesus and Trevon Quinones Mugshots for Jayden DeJesus, 19, and Trevon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153363,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-153362","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153362","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=153362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}