{"id":216849,"date":"2026-04-03T00:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216849\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T00:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T00:55:08","slug":"miami-dade-deputy-shoots-and-injures-a-15-year-old-after-a-firearm-threat-call-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/216849\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami-Dade deputy shoots and injures a 15-year-old after a firearm threat call, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating a shooting involving one of its deputies in southwest Miami-Dade. <\/p>\n<p>Assistant Sheriff Fernand Charles Jr., speaking at a press conference, reported that at approximately 3:30 p.m., a call was received about a firearm threat at a park located at SW 216th Street and 113 Avenue. <\/p>\n<p>When deputies responded, they found a group of four juveniles at SW 222nd Street and 112nd Avenue. According to Charles Jr., a confrontation ensued, and one of the deputies discharged his weapon, striking a 15-year-old boy. <\/p>\n<p>The subject was grazed in the ankle, and he was transported by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue in stable condition, Charles Jr. said. <\/p>\n<p>Charles Jr. added that police recovered a firearm with an extended clip near where the teen was struck. <\/p>\n<p>The three other teenagers were taken into custody by police. It is unclear what charges they will face.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Miami-Dade Sheriff&#8217;s Office is investigating a shooting involving one of its deputies in southwest Miami-Dade. Assistant Sheriff&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216850,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,1064,40968,25447,215,9970],"class_list":{"0":"post-216849","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-miami","8":"tag-miami","9":"tag-miami-headlines","10":"tag-miami-news","11":"tag-miami-dade","12":"tag-miami-dade-sheriff039s-office","13":"tag-police-involved-shooting","14":"tag-shooting","15":"tag-southwest-miami-dade"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216849","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=216849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216849\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216850"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}