{"id":269088,"date":"2026-05-13T06:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269088\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T06:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T06:50:08","slug":"injured-child-airlifted-after-shooting-in-west-perrine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269088\/","title":{"rendered":"Injured child airlifted after shooting in West Perrine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 Authorities responded to reports of a shooting in southwest Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/12\/menor-herido-es-trasladado-en-helicoptero-tras-presunta-balacera-en-west-perrine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/05\/12\/menor-herido-es-trasladado-en-helicoptero-tras-presunta-balacera-en-west-perrine\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It happened in the area of Southwest 102nd Avenue and West Circle Plaza in the unincorporated West Perrine area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to rescue officials, an injured child was taken to Jackson South Medical Center and that child was then airlifted to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the child, a 6-year-old boy, shot himself in the shoulder with his mother\u2019s gun.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The boy is in stable condition, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities have not said whether the boy\u2019s mother will be facing any charges. <\/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<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Bridgette Matter\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/2dda0f91-39c8-479e-9e.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Bridgette Matter<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Bridgette Matter joined the Local 10 News team as a reporter in July 2021. Before moving to South Florida, she began her career in South Bend, Indiana and spent six years in Jacksonville as a reporter and weekend anchor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Jenise Fernandez\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/e6dda417-4f89-4401-aa43-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Jenise Fernandez<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Jenise Fernandez is a six-time Emmy award winning anchor and reporter at Local 10 News. Currently, she anchors the 3 p.m. and 10 p.m. news, Monday through Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 12, 2026 at 4:52 PM MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Authorities responded to reports of a shooting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269089,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-269088","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\/269088","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=269088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}