{"id":2338,"date":"2025-10-14T12:47:30","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:47:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2338\/"},"modified":"2025-10-14T12:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-14T12:47:30","slug":"men-found-dead-in-hialeah-apartment-were-up-and-coming-barbers-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/2338\/","title":{"rendered":"Men found dead in Hialeah apartment were up-and-coming barbers \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Questions remain after two young men were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/police-investigating-after-2-people-found-dead-in-hialeah-apartment\/3669872\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">found dead inside an apartment in Hialeah<\/a> this week.<\/p>\n<p>Kevin Ramirez, 18, and Christian Contreras, 20, were set to travel to Colombia on Thursday, but on Tuesday at around 12:30 p.m., they were both found shot to death inside an apartment at the Atlantico at Aquabella off West 35th Way.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cris and Kevin were amazing, bro, they were the brothers that I just couldn\u2019t ask for anymore. God just placed them in my life,&#8221; Brian Leon said.<\/p>\n<p>Leon was set to travel with them to Colombia. He has since canceled the trip and is now mourning the men, who he considered brothers.<\/p>\n<p>Ramirez and Contreras were both talented and up-and-coming barbers, despite only having started a few years ago.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Within those three years, (Contreras) became one of the top most successful barbers at his age here in Miami, and Kevin was on the same path as well,&#8221; Leon said.<\/p>\n<p>The victims will be honored at a candlelight vigil Thursday evening at their barbershop.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We need to find the people who did this ASAP, because whoever did this did this for no reason,&#8221; Leon said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Questions remain after two young men were found dead inside an apartment in Hialeah this week. Kevin Ramirez,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-2338","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338","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=2338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}