{"id":213914,"date":"2026-04-01T01:45:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213914\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T01:45:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T01:45:16","slug":"police-rule-death-of-woman-found-in-miami-gardens-lake-a-homicide-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/213914\/","title":{"rendered":"Police rule death of woman found in Miami Gardens lake a homicide \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Miami Gardens Police are asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying a homicide victim after a woman\u2019s body was found in a lake.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, police said that on Thursday, March 26, at about 8:39 a.m., officers discovered a woman\u2019s body near 1005 NW 208th Terrace in Miami Gardens.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities later identified the victim as Geneva Bennett Prevatt, 55.<\/p>\n<p>While the cause of death remains under investigation, the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner\u2019s Office determined on Friday that the death was a homicide.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MIAMI-GARDENS-WOMAN-IN-CANAL-FLYER.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the same statement, police asked anyone who may have information that could help the investigation to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about this homicide should contact Miami Gardens Police homicide detective Henesis Baez De Jesus at 305-474-2082 (office) or by email at <a>Henesis.baez@mgpdfl.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>They also urged anyone who prefers to remain anonymous to contact Crime Stoppers by calling 305-471-TIPS (8477), submitting a tip at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.CrimeStoppers305.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.CrimeStoppers305.com<\/a>, or reaching out through their official Facebook page (\u201cContact Us\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/MIAMI-GARDENS-WOMAN-IN-CANAL.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Geneva Bennett Prevatt, 55.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Miami Gardens Police are asking for the public\u2019s help in identifying a homicide victim after a woman\u2019s body&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,2431,125,124],"class_list":["post-213914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-gardens","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213914","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=213914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}