{"id":284049,"date":"2026-05-25T21:10:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:10:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284049\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T21:10:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T21:10:09","slug":"he-was-my-heart-father-of-13-month-old-girl-dies-after-car-crash-in-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284049\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018He was my heart:\u2019 Father of 13-month-old girl dies after car crash in Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 25, 2026 at 4:22 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Emamua Shaiekh was on his way home to his wife and 13-month-old daughter when he died in a car crash <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/traffic\/2026\/05\/24\/police-officers-respond-to-crash-in-miamis-little-havana\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/traffic\/2026\/05\/24\/police-officers-respond-to-crash-in-miamis-little-havana\/\">on Sunday<\/a> in Miami. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shaiekh, 34, who was born in Bangladesh, had finished work at Miami International Airport when a driver struck him in Little Havana. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Shaiekh\u2019s sister Faeza Tajkea said she received an emergency notification from her brother\u2019s phone after the crash in the 300 block of Southwest 10th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI was thinking something bad happened. It was like an instinct,\u201d Tajkea said on Monday. \u201cI called, and somebody picked up the call, and she told us there was an accident.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tajkea said that when she got to the scene of the car crash, her brother\u2019s body was still inside his blue Camry. The investigation was ongoing on Monday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t know how I can see his last face, I don\u2019t know. He was my loving brother,\u201d Tajkea said. \u201cHe was my heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Family\u2019s fundraiser <\/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=\"Samiar Nefzi\" 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\/9dfe9245-12b2-40be-bc.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Samiar Nefzi <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Samiar Nefzi joined the Local 10 News team in August of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 25, 2026 at 4:22 PM MIAMI \u2014 Emamua Shaiekh was on his way home to his wife&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284050,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-284049","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\/284049","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=284049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}