{"id":230732,"date":"2026-04-14T04:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230732\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:12:07","slug":"cutler-bay-man-ambushed-victim-before-hialeah-fatal-shooting-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230732\/","title":{"rendered":"Cutler Bay man ambushed victim before Hialeah fatal shooting, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say a Cutler Bay man waited in his car a block away for a man to come out of his Hialeah house and then <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article315220034.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:fatally shoot him;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">fatally shoot him<\/a> late last month.<\/p>\n<p>Hialeah detectives say Johnny George Mays, 48, shot the man several times in the upper body with a .9 mm handgun before driving off around 7 a.m. Saturday, March 28. Police found the man\u2019s body in his driveway in the 600 block of West 15th Street, along with five spent bullet casings, according to Mays\u2019 arrest report.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives arrested Mays Thursday, and he is being held on first-degree murder and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. He has entered a written plea of not guilty, and a judge Monday ordered him held without bond until trial.<\/p>\n<p>The victim\u2019s name is not mentioned in the arrest report, and Hialeah police have not responded to questions about his identity or possible motive.<\/p>\n<p>According to the arrest affidavit, detectives watched footage from several security cameras in the area that showed Mays approaching and leaving the area. Footage also showed Mays park the car a block away, waiting there for a little more than an hour for the victim to exit his house, the report states.<\/p>\n<p>Mays then drove up to the man, got out of his car and shot him before getting back inside the vehicle and leaving, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives tracked down the car\u2019s registered owner, who told them Mays had the vehicle since late last year, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>Police found Mays Thursday near Southwest 77th Avenue and 192nd Street inside the gated Cutler Cay subdivision, the report states.<\/p>\n<p>According to the arrest report, Mays has previous felony convictions for armed robbery and drug trafficking.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say a Cutler Bay man waited in his car a block away for a man to come&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[13165,17528,225,227,226,103374,49146],"class_list":{"0":"post-230732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-arrest-report","9":"tag-cutler-bay","10":"tag-hialeah","11":"tag-hialeah-headlines","12":"tag-hialeah-news","13":"tag-johnny-george-mays","14":"tag-turner-guilford-knight-correctional-center"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230732","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=230732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}