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BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Authorities have released body camera video of the take-down of a South Florida man accused of a string of shootings spanning from Miami-Dade County to Brevard County.<\/p>\n
Dennard Barnes, 36, was arrested last week<\/a> in Brevard County.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Barnes is charged in connection with two murders \u2014 one in Miami Gardens and another in North Miami \u2014 as well as an additional shooting in Cocoa.\u00a0<\/p>\n Police said he was apprehended after allegedly trying to ram officers with his van. Newly released body camera footage shows officers surrounding Barnes, using a K-9 and tasers as he resisted arrest.\u00a0<\/p>\n CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n Miami-Dade police had issued an alert for Barnes\u2019 white van hours earlier.<\/p>\n Local perspective:<\/p>\n Cocoa police officers said Barnes shot a man in the chest on Feb. 27. It happened at an apartment complex off Clearlake Road. Police said they chased Barnes in a white van. Officers said they had to jump out of the way to avoid being hit as the suspect drove back to the crime scene.<\/p>\n Police arrested Barnes after they said the K-9 officer got Barnes under control.\u00a0<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n Barnes is now facing nearly 20 charges related to the violent spree. Investigators continue to piece together the timeline and circumstances of the attacks.<\/p>\n The Source: FOX 35 used information from the Cocoa Police Department, the Miami Gardens Police Department and the North Miami Police Department to put together this report.<\/p>\n \u00a0 Brevard County News<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – Authorities have released body camera video of the take-down of a South Florida man…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[315,630,47,28,30,29,115,628],"class_list":["post-180356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-brevard-county","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180356","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=180356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}