{"id":206888,"date":"2026-03-26T13:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206888\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T13:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T13:25:07","slug":"miami-dade-deputies-seek-information-about-shooting-that-killed-man-21-in-west-perrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/206888\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade deputies seek information about shooting that killed man, 21, in West Perrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/N777FX7HIZGQ3I7BCPYAGN2XVA.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>A picture of the victim, Kenneth Walters Jr., who deputies say was killed in a shooting this past weekend in West Perrine. (MDSO) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A 21\u2011year\u2011old man was shot and killed this past Saturday night in the West Perrine neighborhood, and authorities are asking anyone with information to come forward. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office said Kenneth Walters Jr., was found with multiple gunshot wounds around 9:57 p.m. in the area of Homestead Avenue and West Guava Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said they responded to a ShotSpotter alert in the neighborhood and discovered Walters suffering from his injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said he was transported by Miami\u2011Dade Fire Rescue to Jackson South Medical Center in critical condition, where he later died. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information on the shooting is urged to contact MDSO Homicide Detective V. Maduro at 305-471\u20112400 or Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Not other details about a possible motive or suspect were immediately released. <\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" 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\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 26, 2026 at 9:00 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandA picture of the victim, Kenneth Walters Jr., who deputies say was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":206889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-206888","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\/206888","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=206888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/206889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}