{"id":166055,"date":"2026-02-23T20:21:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166055\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T20:21:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T20:21:08","slug":"man-faces-murder-charge-after-body-found-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166055\/","title":{"rendered":"Man faces murder charge after body found in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 34-year-old man is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of a woman whose <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/02\/18\/suspicious-death-of-woman-found-in-fort-lauderdale-thought-to-be-murder-police-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">body was discovered<\/a> in a Fort Lauderdale neighborhood last week, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The body of Daneshia Heller, 30, was found shortly before 7:30 a.m. Wednesday in the<a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/RMoxhVtE6pgYD3SCA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> 200 block of Northwest 15th Avenue<\/a>, and Fort Lauderdale Police detectives determined her death was \u201csuspicious\u201d and likely a homicide, spokesperson Casey Liening previously said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Altavious Powell was publicly identified as the suspect by the police department on Sunday evening.<\/p>\n<p>He was arrested by the department\u2019s Gun Intelligence Unit on Thursday on charges of possession of a weapon by a convicted felon, carrying a concealed firearm, resisting an officer without violence and false ID given to a law enforcement officer \u2014 charges unrelated to Heller\u2019s death, Liening said.<\/p>\n<p>Jail records show Powell is also now facing a charge of first-degree murder with a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly before 6:30 a.m. the morning after Heller\u2019s body was found, someone called Fort Lauderdale police, anonymously reporting \u201cthat someone had just confessed to a homicide,\u201d according to a probable cause affidavit, and the man who confessed was \u201carmed and dangerous and has a gun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Officers reviewed surveillance video from the a business in the 1300 block of Northwest Sixth Street where the man had allegedly confessed. Detectives identified the man seen on surveillance video as Powell, a four-time convicted felon, the affidavit said.<\/p>\n<p>Later that morning, Fort Lauderdale detectives saw Powell getting into a car parked in front of the Dixie Court Apartments, which is less than a mile from the area where Heller\u2019s body was found, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>After briefly trying to run away from officers, Powell was arrested, the affidavit said. Officers found a gun Powell discarded into bushes while running away.<\/p>\n<p>Court records pertaining to the murder charge were not available Monday. Powell is held in the Broward Main Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 34-year-old man is facing a murder charge in connection with the death of a woman whose body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,28,249,251,250,114,115,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-166055","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","13":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166055","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=166055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}