{"id":184027,"date":"2026-03-09T11:38:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184027\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:38:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:38:08","slug":"girl-8-accidentally-shot-in-ankle-at-miami-dade-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/184027\/","title":{"rendered":"Girl, 8, accidentally shot in ankle at Miami-Dade home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 9, 2026 at 7:01 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/432IRG5Q6ZCMDFVDNRJLWMVKQY.png\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 An 8-year-old girl was hospitalized Sunday night after she was accidentally shot in the ankle at a home in Miami-Dade County, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, the shooting was reported at about 8:40 p.m. at a home in the 3700 block of Southwest 87th Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said the girl\u2019s father accidentally dropped his gun, and it discharged, striking the girl in the ankle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The girl was transported by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue to Nicklaus Children\u2019s Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office General Investigations Unit are investigating the incident. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details were immediately released.<\/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<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 9, 2026 at 7:01 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 An 8-year-old girl was hospitalized Sunday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-184027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184027","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=184027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}