{"id":235717,"date":"2026-04-17T15:11:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:11:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235717\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T15:11:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T15:11:17","slug":"man-arrested-in-fatal-shooting-at-taste-of-miami-karnival-in-little-haiti-wsvn-7news-miami-news-weather-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235717\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in fatal shooting at Taste of Miami Karnival in Little Haiti &#8211; WSVN 7News | Miami News, Weather, Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Police said they have arrested a man in connection with a <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/1-dead-2-stable-after-shooting-at-taste-of-miami-karnival-in-little-haiti-1-of-3-weekend-shootings-in-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">shooting at a street festival in Miami\u2019s Little Haiti neighborhood<\/a> that left a man dead and sent two other people to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to City of Miami Police, officers with the department\u2019s Priority Support Detail, Domestic Violence Apprehension Team and Homicide Unit conducted a felony stop and took 22-year-old Jamesly Mezime into custody on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said Mezime opened fire near the main stage during the Second Annual Taste of Miami Karnival, near the intersection of Northeast 62nd Street and Second Avenue, just before midnight on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video captured revelers running for cover moments after shots rang out.<\/p>\n<p>Paramedics with Miami Fire Rescue rushed all three victims to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center, where a man was pronounced dead, and a man and a woman were listed as stable.<\/p>\n<p>Loved ones <a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/miami-dade\/family-of-man-fatally-shot-at-taste-of-miami-karnival-in-little-haiti-speaks-out-amid-search-for-gunman\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">identified the deceased victim<\/a> as 23-year-old Kitchner Cyrille.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, a Miami Police spokesperson wrote, \u201cDetectives worked tirelessly, reviewing video footage, gathering intelligence, and conducting surveillance on the suspect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Police have not specified what charges Mezime will be facing.<\/p>\n<p>Please check back on WSVN.com and 7News for more details on this developing story.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 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":"MIAMI (WSVN) &#8211; Police said they have arrested a man in connection with a shooting at a street&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":{"0":"post-235717","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"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235717","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=235717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}