{"id":235839,"date":"2026-04-17T16:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235839\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T16:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T16:55:08","slug":"woman-on-fbis-most-wanted-list-arrested-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235839\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman on FBI&#8217;s most wanted list arrested in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tA suspect accused of killing a woman during a shooting in Missouri in 2020 was arrested in Florida, one day after being placed on the FBI\u2019s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list, NBC News reports.The suspect, KaShawn Nicola Roper, was accused of firing multiple shots at a car during an altercation. Two women were struck, and one was killed.After the shooting, Roper was charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon, according to the FBI.A federal arrest warrant was then issued after she was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.She was added to the FBI\u2019s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on April 14, and a $1 million reward was offered.Soon after, FBI officials in Jacksonville received credible tips regarding Roper\u2019s whereabouts, leading to her arrest.NBC reported that Alachua County online jail records showed that Roper was being held without bond as of Thursday.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tFlorida \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>A suspect accused of killing a woman during a shooting in Missouri in 2020 was arrested in Florida, one day after being placed on the FBI\u2019s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/news\/us-news\/woman-suspected-2020-murder-arrested-day-added-fbi-wanted-list-rcna332276\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> NBC News reports.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The suspect, KaShawn Nicola Roper, was accused of firing multiple shots at a car during an altercation. Two women were struck, and one was killed.<\/p>\n<p>After the shooting, Roper was charged with second-degree murder, armed criminal action, and unlawful use of a weapon, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fbi.gov\/contact-us\/field-offices\/kansascity\/news\/ten-most-wanted-fugitive-kashawn-nicola-roper-apprehended-in-florida\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">FBI.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A federal arrest warrant was then issued after she was charged with unlawful flight to avoid prosecution.<\/p>\n<p>She was added to the FBI\u2019s Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list on April 14, and a $1 million reward was offered.<\/p>\n<p>Soon after, FBI officials in Jacksonville received credible tips regarding Roper\u2019s whereabouts, leading to her arrest.<\/p>\n<p>NBC reported that Alachua County online jail records showed that Roper was being held without bond as of Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect accused of killing a woman during a shooting in Missouri in 2020 was arrested in Florida,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[104526,105058,166,2362,28,30,29,116,104394,19321,88185,27896,104521,7917,215,4209,192],"class_list":{"0":"post-235839","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-florida","8":"tag-armed-criminal-action","9":"tag-credible-tip","10":"tag-day","11":"tag-fbi","12":"tag-florida","13":"tag-florida-headlines","14":"tag-florida-news","15":"tag-jacksonville","16":"tag-kashawn-nicola-roper","17":"tag-list","18":"tag-murder-suspect","19":"tag-nbc-news","20":"tag-roper","21":"tag-second-degree-murder","22":"tag-shooting","23":"tag-whereabout","24":"tag-woman"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235839","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=235839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}