{"id":169017,"date":"2026-02-25T19:22:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169017\/"},"modified":"2026-02-25T19:22:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-25T19:22:26","slug":"family-of-woman-killed-in-fort-lauderdale-speaks-after-suspects-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/169017\/","title":{"rendered":"Family of woman killed in Fort Lauderdale speaks after suspect\u2019s arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Emotional family members are speaking out after their loved one was found dead outside an apartment complex in Fort Lauderdale. It comes Tuesday as police provided an update on the suspect arrested in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/02\/24\/no-se-lo-merecia-familia-de-mujer-asesinada-en-fort-lauderdale-habla-tras-arresto-del-sospechoso\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/02\/24\/no-se-lo-merecia-familia-de-mujer-asesinada-en-fort-lauderdale-habla-tras-arresto-del-sospechoso\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Daneshia Heller, 30, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/18\/homicide-investigation-underway-after-body-of-woman-found-at-fort-lauderdale-apartment-complex\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/18\/homicide-investigation-underway-after-body-of-woman-found-at-fort-lauderdale-apartment-complex\/\">murdered last Wednesday<\/a>, officials with the Fort Lauderdale Police Department said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s devastating,\u201d Heller\u2019s mother, Temekia Connor, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said her naked body was found near a dumpster in the 1500 block of Northwest Second Street. Police say she was shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cShe didn\u2019t deserve that,\u201d Heller\u2019s aunt, Latoya Snell, said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities identified the suspect as Altavious Powell, 34, of Miami Gardens. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/KCQTD5WBXZGDRHMQS4WHUITDOY.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"450\"\/>Photo Altavious Powell (BSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201c(To) shoot her in the head, like, what could she have done or said to you that you think that you want to kill and shoot my baby, execution style, like that?\u201d Connor said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to his arrest warrant, Powell told his child\u2019s mother that he killed two women, but police said that, despite rumors on social media suggesting Powell might be a serial killer, detectives confirmed he is only linked to one homicide as of now.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe do not have a serial killer that we\u2019re looking at in the city of Fort Lauderdale,\u201d FLPD Sgt. Don Geiger said. \u201cI think the family\u2019s still trying to heal and then when they see \u2015 we\u2019ve had them reach out to us for things that they\u2019ve seen on social media, thinking, now that they have other family members that live in the area, is there a concern for them?<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cEven though we vetted that the suspect is in custody, it hasn\u2019t stopped the trail of social media from continuing to grow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Heller leaves behind three young daughters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cBaby, we love you, and even though you\u2019re not here with us in body, you are always going to be with us in spirit,\u201d Snell said through tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Family members have set up <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-daneshia-hellers-family?attribution_id=sl%3A37ec1612-cd71-4059-9847-12fb61002da8&amp;ts=1771966384664&amp;utm_campaign=natman_sharesheet_dash&amp;utm_content=amp14_t2&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=sms\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-for-daneshia-hellers-family?attribution_id=sl%3A37ec1612-cd71-4059-9847-12fb61002da8&amp;ts=1771966384664&amp;utm_campaign=natman_sharesheet_dash&amp;utm_content=amp14_t2&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=sms\">a GoFundMe page<\/a> to help with expenses.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Emotional family members are speaking out after their loved one was found dead outside&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169018,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-169017","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\/169017","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=169017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}