{"id":212200,"date":"2026-03-30T21:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212200\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:33:10","slug":"i-am-the-one-who-has-to-live-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212200\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I am the one who has to live with it\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 30, 2026 at 4:49 PM<\/p>\n<p>Miami man changes plea to guilty in killing of his 21-year-old son <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 David Contreras <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2024\/04\/30\/judge-allows-pre-trial-release-of-father-who-confessed-to-fatally-shooting-son-in-kendall\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2024\/04\/30\/judge-allows-pre-trial-release-of-father-who-confessed-to-fatally-shooting-son-in-kendall\/\">is accused of killing his son Eric in 2023<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/30\/se-declara-culpable-de-matar-a-su-hijo-y-recibe-12-anos-de-prision\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/30\/se-declara-culpable-de-matar-a-su-hijo-y-recibe-12-anos-de-prision\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Contreras, 54, changed his plea on Monday to manslaughter and giving up his right to a trial. The move was part of a plea deal; he had been facing a second-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Friends of 21-year-old Eric Contreras \u2015 and his girlfriend \u2015 packed the courtroom as they spoke about their heartbreaking loss.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI am the one who has to live with it and I\u2019ve accepted it,\u201d David Contreras told the judge. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou have to live with it, sir?\u201d Judge David Young responded. \u201cYour wife has to live with it, sir. Your other son has to live with it, sir. Your future grandchildren have to live with it, sir. A lot of people. It\u2019s horrible.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said Contreras, then 52, killed Eric Contreras on Nov. 3, 2023 following an argument in their Kendall home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The judge issued a sentence of 12 years in prison followed by 10 years of probation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Contreras\u2019 attorney, Frank Quintero, addressed the media after the hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cOf course he\u2019s sorry, no father, no father intentionally wants to kill his kid,\u201d Quintero said. <\/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=\"Sanela Sabovic\" 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\/d5c3b100-ae4a-4c5c-aa.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Sanela Sabovic<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Sanela Sabovic joined Local 10 News in September 2012 as an assignment editor and associate producer.\u00a0In August 2015, she became a full-time reporter and fill-in traffic reporter. Sanela holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications with a concentration in radio, television and film from DePaul University.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 30, 2026 at 4:49 PM Miami man changes plea to guilty in killing of his 21-year-old son&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212201,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-212200","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\/212200","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=212200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}