{"id":166583,"date":"2026-02-24T04:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166583\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T04:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T04:25:08","slug":"surveillance-shows-moments-before-locksmiths-murder-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166583\/","title":{"rendered":"Surveillance shows moments before locksmith\u2019s murder \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

Surveillance footage captured the moments before a locksmith was shot to death<\/a> while on the job in West Miami last week.<\/p>\n

Luis David Lemus, 32, was charged with second-degree murder in the killing of Adrian Venereo on Friday at an apartment building on Southwest 8th Street.<\/p>\n

In the surveillance, Lemus is in a white jersey, walking with Venereo, who is rolling a toolbox behind him.<\/p>\n

According to the arrest report, the victim was going to Lemus\u2019s home after he and his father got locked out of their place.<\/p>\n

While Venereo was working to change the locks, Lemus allegedly pulled out a gun and shot him in the head before running away.<\/p>\n

The suspect’s father is heard screaming after it happened, with blood on his arms and hands.<\/p>\n

“Why would you do that?” he screams.<\/p>\n

When the police arrived at the scene, the victim was dead on the floor, in the hallway of the seventh floor.<\/p>\n

\"Nicole<\/p>\n

Nicole Galvis and Adrian Venereo<\/p>\n

Nicole Galvis, Venereo’s husband, said she came to the scene when she didn’t hear from her husband.<\/p>\n

“I just felt something was wrong, and when I showed up, I saw all the crime scene and the police,” she said. “They don’t know why he did it, he was just working.”<\/p>\n

Lemus, who appeared in court virtually from his jail cell, was seen on video lying down on a bed and pulling a blanket over himself. He didn’t answer any questions.<\/p>\n

Prosecutors said he confessed to the crime.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Surveillance footage captured the moments before a locksmith was shot to death while on the job in West…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166584,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,2033],"class_list":{"0":"post-166583","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news","11":"tag-only-on-6"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166583","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=166583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166583\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}