{"id":252497,"date":"2026-04-30T14:25:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252497\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T14:25:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T14:25:07","slug":"this-is-an-act-of-war-miami-man-accused-of-shooting-at-car-trying-to-remove-american-flag-from-vehicle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/252497\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018This is an act of war:\u2019 Miami man accused of shooting at car, trying to remove American flag from vehicle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A 33-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after he shot at a car and tried to remove an American flag that was attached to it, the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/30\/esto-es-un-acto-de-guerra-acusan-a-hombre-de-miami-de-balear-auto-e-intentar-quitar-bandera-estadounidense\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/04\/30\/esto-es-un-acto-de-guerra-acusan-a-hombre-de-miami-de-balear-auto-e-intentar-quitar-bandera-estadounidense\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the suspect\u2019s arrest report, the incident occurred at about 12:40 p.m. in the area of 25200 S. Dixie Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said a deputy responded to the scene after receiving a report about an \u201cassault in progress\u201d and found David Allen Snyder Jr., of Miami, pointing a gun at a vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The deputy ordered Snyder to put the gun down and his hands up, and then took Snyder into custody, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, Snyder spontaneously told the deputy, \u201cThis is an act of war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victims in the other vehicle told the responding deputy that they were stopped at a red light when they felt their vehicle move and initially thought they had been in a minor accident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But they said they then looked in the rearview mirror and spotted the suspect trying to remove an American flag that was attached to their car.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, the driver fled the area in an attempt to get away from Snyder, but he followed them into a shopping plaza at Southwest 264th Street and South Dixie Highway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victims told the deputy that Snyder repeatedly pointed a gun at the windshield of their vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said as they were making turns in the parking lot, they heard a single gunshot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The responding deputy arrived at the scene as the victims were exiting the shopping plaza, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, the arresting deputy found a black gun and one spent casing inside Snyder\u2019s vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After being taken into custody, Snyder invoked his right to remain silent, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was arrested on charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle and improper exhibition of a firearm. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Thursday morning, Snyder was being held at the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center on an $18,000 bond. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 33-year-old man was arrested Wednesday after he shot at a car and tried&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252498,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-252497","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252497","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=252497"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252497\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252497"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252497"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252497"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}