{"id":185883,"date":"2026-03-10T16:47:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185883\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:47:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:47:10","slug":"man-who-killed-10-year-old-boy-during-2013-miami-dade-nail-salon-robbery-sentenced-to-life-in-prison-avoiding-death-penalty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/185883\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who killed 10-year-old boy during 2013 Miami-Dade nail salon robbery sentenced to life in prison avoiding death penalty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The man who admitted to shooting and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/anthawn-ragan-penalty-phase-aaron-vu-killing-2013\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">killing a 10-year-old boy during a robbery at a Miami-Dade nail salon in 2013<\/a> that also wounded the boy&#8217;s father has been sentenced to life in prison and avoided the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/death-penalty\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">death penalty<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Anthawn Ragan was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for shooting and killing 10-year-old Aaron Vu at the north Miami-Dade nail salon. Aaron&#8217;s father, Hai Vu, was wounded.l<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance footage showed Ragan and another person entering the nail salon with guns drawn, threatening customers and employees.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the two stole $300 before Ragan opened fire, killing the young boy and injuring his father.<\/p>\n<p>Ragan is already serving a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/anthawn-ragan-facing-death-penalty-for-2013-murder-to-take-the-stand-during-sentencing\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">life sentence for the execution-style killing<\/a>\u00a0of a man also back in 2013.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The man who admitted to shooting and killing a 10-year-old boy during a robbery at a Miami-Dade nail&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":185884,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[265,408,123,125,124,1064,2371,14040,215,807],"class_list":["post-185883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime","tag-death-penalty","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-prison","tag-robbery","tag-shooting","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185883","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=185883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185883\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/185884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}