Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\nAn arrest report describes the dispute between Eugene Janode Witherspoon, 46, and the victim as \u201cverbal\u201d but doesn\u2019t say what it was about. Deputies said it happened Tuesday morning outside Mazie\u2019s Soul Food Restaurant at 7525 NW 22nd Ave. in the county\u2019s Gladeview area.<\/p>\n
But investigators with the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office said it ramped up when Witherspoon went to the victim\u2019s home in the 7300 block of Northwest 20th Court at around 12:45 a.m. Wednesday, approached him as he was walking in with his girlfriend and opened fire three times, hitting him in the leg.<\/p>\n
Deputies said the victim returned fire and Witherspoon, who lives in Miami\u2019s Liberty City neighborhood, fled. Detectives said they found 11 shell casings at the scene.<\/p>\n
Medics took the victim to Jackson Memorial Hospital. Police said he told detectives he doesn\u2019t know Witherspoon, but has seen him in the neighborhood \u201cmultiple times.\u201d<\/p>\n
According to the arrest report, deputies found Witherspoon later that evening walking on Northwest 22nd Avenue. They said he was wearing the same sneakers that he was in CCTV footage depicting the shooting.<\/p>\n
Investigators said Witherspoon admitted to shooting the victim and getting rid of the gun, though he wouldn\u2019t say where he dumped it.<\/p>\n
A records check revealed Witherspoon\u2019s sex offender status, stemming from a 1999 conviction for lewd and lascivious battery on a child under 16.<\/p>\n
Deputies arrested Witherspoon on charges of attempted first-degree murder and felon in possession of a firearm and took him to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center.<\/p>\n
His bond was listed in Miami-Dade jail records as \u201cto be set\u201d as of Thursday morning.<\/p>\n
\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n
Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com – All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A registered sex offender shot another man in the leg hours after getting into…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225191,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-225190","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\/225190","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=225190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}