{"id":214409,"date":"2026-04-01T11:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214409\/"},"modified":"2026-04-01T11:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-01T11:34:09","slug":"homicide-investigation-underway-in-miami-gardens-after-womans-body-found-in-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/214409\/","title":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation underway in Miami Gardens after woman&#8217;s body found in lake"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homicide investigation underway in Miami Gardens after woman&#8217;s body found in lake<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is underway in Miami Gardens after police said a woman&#8217;s body was found in a lake on March 26.<\/p>\n<p>According to information provided by the Miami Gardens Police Department, the body of 55-year-old Geneva Bennett Prevatt was found in the lake in the area of 1005 Northwest 208th Terrace.<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/cbsmiami-geneva-bennett-prevatt-1.png#.png\" alt=\"cbsmiami-geneva-bennett-prevatt-1.png \" height=\"832\" width=\"620\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Geneva Bennett Prevatt<\/p>\n<p>                Miami Gardens Police Department<\/p>\n<p>Bennett&#8217;s cause of death is still under investigation, but an autopsy that was performed by the Miami-Dade County Medical Examiner&#8217;s Office ruled her death a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone with information about the incident to come forward.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, police said anyone with more information should contact Miami Gardens Police Homicide Detective Henesis Baez De Jesus at 305-474-2082 (office) or via email at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/miami-gardens-body-in-lake-homicide-geneva-bennett-prevatt\/mailto:Henesis.baez@mgpdfl.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Henesis.baez@mgpdfl.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to remain anonymous, contact the Miami-Dade CrimeStoppers at 305-471-TIPS (8477). You can also submit a tip by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.crimestoppers305.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">clicking here<\/a> or through their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/crimestoppers305\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homicide investigation underway in Miami Gardens after woman&#8217;s body found in lake An investigation is underway in Miami&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,2431,23276,125,124,1064,807],"class_list":["post-214409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-gardens","tag-miami-gardens-police","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214409","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=214409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/214409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=214409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=214409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=214409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}