{"id":172451,"date":"2026-02-28T04:14:21","date_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172451\/"},"modified":"2026-02-28T04:14:21","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T04:14:21","slug":"man-found-guilty-in-2023-mlk-day-murder-of-fort-pierce-mother-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/172451\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found guilty in 2023 MLK Day murder of Fort Pierce mother"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A man has been found guilty of attempted first-degree murder and other charges in a 2023 MLK Day shooting in Fort Pierce that killed a young mother.<\/p>\n

On Friday, Brian Workman, an assistant state attorney, confirmed that Kemmye Parson was convicted of attempted first-degree murder <\/a>with a firearm, second-degree felony murder, and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon in the killing of Nikkitia Bryant.<\/p>\n

See also: PSL man charged in Halloween crash that killed man on electric scooter<\/a><\/p>\n

Parson was arrested back in Tampa in 2023 by the U.S. Marshals and was previously held at the Hillsborough County Jail. <\/p>\n

On Jan. 16, Nikkitia Bryant, 29, was shot and killed while she was attending the 2023 772 MLK Family Fun Day Festival<\/a> and Car Show, held at Ilous Ellis Park. When shots were fired, Bryant was shielding her daughter from the gunfire when she was struck by multiple gunshots.<\/p>\n

Following her death, Bryant’s mother, Nikkiti White, filed a lawsuit in the St. Lucie County Court against multiple parties for what transpired at the festival. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A man has been found guilty of attempted first-degree murder and other charges…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":172407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-172451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172451","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=172451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}