{"id":182606,"date":"2026-03-07T23:42:31","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:42:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182606\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T23:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:42:31","slug":"fifth-man-in-florida-boat-shootout-with-cuba-dies-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182606\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth man in Florida boat shootout with Cuba dies \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A fifth man, who the Cuban government says was on a Florida-flagged speedboat that is alleged to have opened fire on soldiers in waters off the island\u2019s north coast, has died. <\/p>\n<p>The Cuban embassy confirmed Roberto \u00c1lvarez \u00c1vila died Wednesday &#8220;as a result of his injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The injured detainees continue to receive specialized medical care according to their health status and the severity of their injuries,&#8221; the embassy wrote on X.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83c\udde8\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf2\ud83d\udea8Investigation into foiled terrorist infiltration attempt moves forward. US authorities express willingness to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>In compliance with the current Cuban law, forensic and investigative actions that will allow full clarification of the facts, as well as the involvement\u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rO1RdlcTcO\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/rO1RdlcTcO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cuban Embassy in US (@EmbaCubaUS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EmbaCubaUS\/status\/2029738812927041953?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">March 6, 2026<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Cuba said Wednesday it has filed terrorism charges against the suspects. The Prosecutor\u2019s Office said in a statement that the suspects of Cuban origin remain in pretrial detention, adding that it will ensure \u201cdue process\u201d as it continues to act \u201cin defense of our people and the country\u2019s institutions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The government has said 10 heavily armed Cubans from the U.S. who were on board the boat opened fire as they tried to infiltrate the island to commit acts of terrorism. It said that Cuban soldiers returned fire, killing four suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The government unveiled items said to have been found on the boat, including a dozen high-powered weapons, more than 12,800 pieces of ammunition and 11 pistols.<\/p>\n<p>Chief prosecutor Edward Robert Campbell has told The Associated Press that terrorism charges carry a possible sentence of up to 30 years in prison or even the death penalty, although Cuba has maintained a moratorium on the latter since 2003.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A fifth man, who the Cuban government says was on a Florida-flagged speedboat that is alleged to have&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182607,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1016,28,30,29],"class_list":["post-182606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-cuba","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182606","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=182606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182606\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}