{"id":199586,"date":"2026-03-20T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199586\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T19:50:08","slug":"brides-march-in-miami-shores-raises-awareness-about-domestic-and-dating-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/199586\/","title":{"rendered":"Brides March in Miami Shores raises awareness about domestic and dating violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM<\/p>\n<p>Domestic and dating violence protesters march in Miami Shores <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI SHORES, Fla.  \u2014 Gladys Ricart had ended a troubled relationship and had fallen in love again. The hopeful bride was wearing a white wedding gown with a lacy top and a tiara. A wedding videographer was recording her. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Ricart, 39, an accountant in Manhattan, was with her bridesmaids and 20-year-old son, getting ready to marry James Preston, who was waiting at church, when her ex-boyfriend Agustin Garcia fatally shot her.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Garcia is serving life in prison for the 1999 murder in Ridgefield, New Jersey. On Friday, in Miami Shores, Ricart\u2019s niece <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lethy-liriano-1803a019\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/lethy-liriano-1803a019\">Lethy Liriano<\/a>, remembered her aunt and her legacy of awareness. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMany people think that because someone is in a personal relationship, or it\u2019s happening in their apartment, or their home that\u2019s not their business and they don\u2019t want to get involved, and I think that\u2019s what\u2019s causing the level and severity of violence that\u2019s occuring in our homes and our families,\u201d said Liriano, the executive director of <a href=\"https:\/\/bridesmarch.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/bridesmarch.com\/\">Brides\u2019 March<\/a>, a nonprofit organization against domestic and dating violence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Liriano joined demonstrators on Friday for the 15th Annual College Brides Walk at Barry University to mark Women\u2019s History Month. She pointed to signs with pictures of victims. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFolks who have so much to contribute to society, we are losing them because we are not holding people accountable,\u201d Liriano said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Useful links <\/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=\"Jolena Esperto\" 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\/4c492fdc-471c-4ae6-a004-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jolena Esperto<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jolena Esperto joined the Local 10 News team in July of 2025.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" 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\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 20, 2026 at 2:24 PM Domestic and dating violence protesters march in Miami Shores MIAMI SHORES, Fla.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":199587,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-199586","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\/199586","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=199586"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199586\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199586"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199586"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199586"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}