{"id":22678,"date":"2025-10-27T19:10:05","date_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22678\/"},"modified":"2025-10-27T19:10:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-27T19:10:05","slug":"man-who-fatally-shot-hollywood-police-officer-in-2021-pleads-guilty-faces-death-penalty-phase-in-november-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/22678\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who fatally shot Hollywood police officer in 2021 pleads guilty, faces death penalty phase in November &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HOLLYWOOD, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; The man accused of fatally shooting <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/public-memorial-service-for-slain-hollywood-police-officer-yandy-chirino-held-at-fla-arena\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/public-memorial-service-for-slain-hollywood-police-officer-yandy-chirino-held-at-fla-arena\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hollywood Police Officer Yandy Chirino<\/a> in 2021 pleaded guilty to all charges Monday morning as jury selection was set to begin, according to the Broward County State Attorney\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors said Jason Banegas, now 22, changed his plea to guilty without a negotiated deal. <\/p>\n<p>The case will now move forward to the death penalty phase. Jury selection for this phase began on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>SAO officials said Broward Circuit Judge Ernest Kollra is expected to begin the penalty phase on Nov. 17.<\/p>\n<p>Banegas was 18 when, police said, <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/suspect-in-custody-after-fatally-shooting-hollywood-police-officer\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/suspect-in-custody-after-fatally-shooting-hollywood-police-officer\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">he shot Officer Chirino<\/a> in the face during a struggle on Oct. 17, 2021, after officers responded to reports of a suspicious person near North Hills Drive in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/body-of-slain-hollywood-police-officer-taken-to-medical-examiners-office-during-emotional-procession\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/body-of-slain-hollywood-police-officer-taken-to-medical-examiners-office-during-emotional-procession\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Chirino<\/a>, 28, was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital, where he later died. He had been with the Hollywood Police Department since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Banegas was charged with first-degree murder, armed burglary, battery on a law enforcement officer, resisting arrest with violence, grand theft of a firearm, and carrying a concealed firearm.<\/p>\n<p>He was on juvenile probation at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2025 Sunbeam Television Corp. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p>\tJoin our Newsletter for the latest news right to your inbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HOLLYWOOD, FLA. (WSVN) &#8211; The man accused of fatally shooting Hollywood Police Officer Yandy Chirino in 2021 pleaded&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-22678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678","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=22678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}