killing of 30-year-old Daneshia Heller<\/a>, whose body was found on Feb. 18 in the 200 block of Northwest 15th Avenue. <\/p>\nIt was later determined she’d been murdered, and a suspect, 34-year-old Altavious Powell, was later arrested in her killing.<\/p>\n
Geiger said there’s nothing to suggest that other killings in Fort Lauderdale are connected with Heller’s murder.<\/p>\n
“A lot of things that have reached social media are saying that we have a serial killer and putting out peoples’ vehicles and description of a person’s vehicle that’s not involved in this, and that’s a safety issue for that person, that person’s family,” Geiger said. “It grows legs as we’ve seen, we’ve seen it start off with just we have a serial killer, to now it’s developed to four or five bodies, they started naming locations of a possible serial killer.”<\/p>\n
Geiger said Powell was linked to Heller’s killing by DNA found at the crime scene.<\/p>\n
“Serial killers is a very strong statement to make, you’re talking about putting the lives of not only the residents of the city of Fort Lauderdale, I have family members from other states reaching out concerned about the safety of women and children and people are afraid to walk and go outside their homes,” Geiger said.<\/p>\n
Geiger also had a message for those spreading the rumors on social media.<\/p>\n
“I would fact check everything that you post and everything that you share because we are talking about other peoples’ lives, we’re talking about innocent civilians that aren’t involved in this incident that are being accused of having a certain color vehicle, or driving a certain way, so please double check and verify any information you get before you just blatantly post it out into social media,” he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale Police held a news conference Tuesday to dispel internet rumors about a possible serial killer in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-167503","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\/167503","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=167503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}