{"id":215963,"date":"2026-04-02T12:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215963\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T12:20:10","slug":"teen-charged-as-adult-in-southwest-miami-dade-drive-by-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/215963\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged as adult in southwest Miami-Dade drive-by shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0April 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM<\/p>\n<p>MDSO: 15-year-old injured in shooting 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\/04\/VQP53OBHB5DGVPBK6IPYHYJ34I.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>Adrian Negron Vega (Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A 17-year-old boy is being charged as an adult following a February drive-by shooting in southwest Miami-Dade that injured another teen, Local 10 News learned Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Online jail records show Adrian Negron Vega was booked into the Metrowest Detention Center Wednesday on an attempted murder charge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Miami-Dade sheriff\u2019s deputies, Negron Vega was 16 at the time of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/19\/two-teens-charged-in-southwest-miami-dade-drive-by-shooting-that-injured-15-year-old\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/02\/19\/two-teens-charged-in-southwest-miami-dade-drive-by-shooting-that-injured-15-year-old\/\">Feb. 18 shooting near Southwest 152nd Avenue and Southwest 80th Street.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said Negron Vega and 17-year-old Camilo Buritica were inside a black Honda Civic when a dash camera captured them arguing with the 15-year-old victim and another teen.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that shortly after the confrontation, the front passenger is seen extending his arm out of the window while holding a black firearm and firing several shots before the car sped away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said Buritica confessed to driving the Civic. During questioning, he told detectives that Negron Vega was the one who fired the shots, an arrest report stated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, during questioning, Negron Vega claimed he was home at the time of the shooting and denied any involvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim, identified as Eydam Ramos, was shot in the right shoulder and left ankle, but survived his injuries. <\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0April 2, 2026 at 7:57 AM MDSO: 15-year-old injured in shooting lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandAdrian Negron Vega (Miami-Dade Corrections &amp; Rehabilitation)&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215964,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-215963","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\/215963","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=215963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}