{"id":189565,"date":"2026-03-13T02:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189565\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T02:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T02:19:17","slug":"man-killed-in-officer-involved-shooting-after-domestic-call-in-sweetwater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/189565\/","title":{"rendered":"Man killed in officer-involved shooting after domestic call in Sweetwater"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM<\/p>\n<p>Man armed with knife killed in Sweetwater officer-involved shooting <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">SWEETWATER, Fla. \u2014 Police say a domestic disturbance call Wednesday night in Sweetwater ended with officers fatally shooting a man who was armed with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/12\/muere-hombre-en-balacera-con-policia-tras-llamada-por-violencia-domestica-en-sweetwater\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/12\/muere-hombre-en-balacera-con-policia-tras-llamada-por-violencia-domestica-en-sweetwater\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Sweetwater Police Department, officers were called around 6:30 p.m. to the 11000 block of Southwest Seventh Terrace about a domestic altercation between a married couple. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the man involved was armed with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWhen they arrived to the scene and they got to the residence, they were able to see a female at the residence and a male armed with a knife,\u201d said Sweetwater police spokesperson Alvaro Zabaleta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities say a confrontation happened between the man and officers, and police were forced to shoot the 30-year-old man, killing him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe female was transported to a local hospital because there was noticeable bruising and she\u2019s 5 months pregnant,\u201d said Zabaleta.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Neighbors said they were surprised by the large police presence in the usually quiet area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now leading the investigation.<\/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=\"Magdala Louissaint\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/37f8699f-d0f0-420f-8dfa-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Magdala Louissaint<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Magdala Louissaint joined WPLG in August 2025 and is thrilled to call South Florida home. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 11, 2026 at 11:06 PM Man armed with knife killed in Sweetwater officer-involved shooting SWEETWATER, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189566,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":["post-189565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hialeah","tag-hialeah","tag-hialeah-headlines","tag-hialeah-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189565","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=189565"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189565\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}