{"id":188130,"date":"2026-03-12T02:39:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188130\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T02:39:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T02:39:07","slug":"man-armed-with-a-knife-shot-and-killed-by-officers-after-a-domestic-altercation-call-in-sweetwater-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188130\/","title":{"rendered":"Man armed with a knife shot and killed by officers after a domestic altercation call in Sweetwater, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sweetwater police officers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/police-involved-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">shot and killed <\/a>a man Wednesday night after they say he was in a &#8220;domestic altercation&#8221; with a pregnant woman.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the city&#8217;s police department, they received 911 calls about a domestic altercation in the 11600 block of SW 7th Terrace at around 6:25 p.m. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When officers arrived at the scene, they found a woman and the man, who they say was armed with a knife. Few details are released about the confrontation between the man and police, but it ended with officers shooting him.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear exactly how many officers opened fire, but four officers responded to the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The woman, who Sweetwater police say is five months pregnant, was transported to a local hospital for a preliminary check. Police say the man who died was her husband and was about 30 years old.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No other details of the people involved have been released. The investigation remains active.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sweetwater police officers shot and killed a man Wednesday night after they say he was in a &#8220;domestic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188131,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[5713,123,125,124,25447,8181,215],"class_list":["post-188130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-domestic-violence","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-police-involved-shooting","tag-police-officers","tag-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188130","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=188130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188130\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}