{"id":216787,"date":"2026-04-02T23:50:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216787\/"},"modified":"2026-04-02T23:50:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T23:50:15","slug":"deputy-shoots-teen-after-confrontation-in-southwest-miami-dade-officials-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216787\/","title":{"rendered":"Deputy shoots teen after confrontation in southwest Miami-Dade, officials say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A deputy shot a 15-year-old, grazing their ankle, after a confrontation Thursday in southwest Miami-Dade, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting happened at around 3:30 p.m. in the area of Southwest 112th Avenue and Southwest 221st Street.<\/p>\n<p>The Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office said that they received a call about threats with a firearm at a park.<\/p>\n<p>When deputies responded, they found four people, and a confrontation ensued, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The deputy shot the teen, who was grazed in the ankle, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>A firearm was recovered near the teen.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/IMG_4381.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Deputies recovered a firearm after the shooting.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Deputies recovered a firearm after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>No other details were immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating.<\/p>\n<p>Check back with NBC6 for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deputy shot a 15-year-old, grazing their ankle, after a confrontation Thursday in southwest Miami-Dade, officials said. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216788,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-216787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216787","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=216787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}