{"id":197624,"date":"2026-03-19T10:53:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197624\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T10:53:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T10:53:08","slug":"miami-dade-sheriffs-office-searching-for-armed-and-dangerous-man-after-shooting-of-county-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/197624\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office searching for &#8220;armed and dangerous&#8221; man after shooting of county employee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade-sheriffs-office\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office<\/a> is asking the public for help in locating a man who they describe as &#8220;armed and dangerous&#8221; following the shooting of a county employee earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The MDSO said Nathan J. Cooper was involved in the shooting of a Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department employee, who at last check was in critical condition at a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/shooting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">shooting<\/a> took place at an apartment complex in northwest <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Miami-Dade<\/a> along Northwest 4th Avenue and 84th Street on Tuesday evening, investigators say.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said two men got into a fight when one of them pulled out a gun and shot the other.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, who is a Miami-Dade Water and Sewer Department employee, was rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the whereabouts of Cooper is asked to call Miami-Dade <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/crime-stoppers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Crime Stoppers<\/a> at 305-471-TIPS. <\/p>\n<p>Callers can remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office is asking the public for help in locating a man who they describe as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[265,7726,123,125,124,1064,40968,215,807],"class_list":["post-197624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime","tag-crime-stoppers","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-miami-dade-sheriff039s-office","tag-shooting","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197624","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=197624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}