{"id":243653,"date":"2026-04-23T19:12:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243653\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T19:12:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T19:12:09","slug":"father-75-believed-to-have-fatally-shot-son-in-self-defense-in-palmetto-bay-deputies-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/243653\/","title":{"rendered":"Father, 75, believed to have fatally shot son in self-defense in Palmetto Bay, deputies say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A 75-year-old father fatally shot his 47-year-old son at a home in Palmetto Bay<\/a> in what’s currently being investigated as self-defense, authorities said Thursday.<\/p>\n

The shooting happened shortly before 5 p.m. Wednesday at a home in the area of Southwest 168th Street and Southwest 92nd Avenue.<\/p>\n

Miami-Dade Sheriff’s Office officials said 47-year-old David Dylan McPeck was shot and killed by 75-year-old David Ronald McPeck.<\/p>\n

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Miami-Dade deputies respond after officials said a 75-year-old father shot his 47-year-old son in Palmetto Bay on April 22, 2026.<\/p>\n

Officials said there were mental health issues involved and the incident is currently being treated as self-defense.<\/p>\n

On Thursday morning, a woman who identified herself as a family member pulled up to the home and said her brother was a very sick individual and had attacked her father.<\/p>\n

“We’ve seen this coming for years,” she said. “I can\u2019t even begin to tell you what this is doing to my family.”<\/p>\n

NBC6 found public records that showed a history of issues with the son including a restraining order against him requested by his family.<\/p>\n

A neighbor said the couple in their 70s who own the home are kind and neighborly but she knew they had a troubled son.<\/p>\n

The neighbor said she had seen police at the home before and had recently seen the son there.<\/p>\n

“The day before yesterday he was running and screaming very high but he used to that,” Victoria Delgado said.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office was going door-to-door Thursday to see if anyone witnessed what happened.<\/p>\n

David Ronald McPeck was detained and later released, and officials said no formal charges have been filed as of now.<\/p>\n

Officials said the shooting remains under investigation but was an isolated incident.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 75-year-old father fatally shot his 47-year-old son at a home in Palmetto Bay in what’s currently being…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243654,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-243653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243653","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=243653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243653\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}