{"id":285536,"date":"2026-05-27T01:42:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285536\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T01:42:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T01:42:12","slug":"i-was-scared-victim-of-miami-beach-knife-attack-recalls-memorial-day-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285536\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I was scared\u2019: Victim of Miami Beach knife attack recalls Memorial Day incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 A 18-year-old man from Miami-Dade County is facing charges after police said he chased a woman around with a knife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened Sunday on the sand in Miami Beach as many were enjoying the Memorial Day holiday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, a group of friends was hanging out on the beach when one of them, identified as Misael Algel Aguilar Santurio, began throwing sand at the others. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">After the victim threw sand back at him, she told police Aguilar Santurio got upset and told her \u201cthat he was going to gut her\u201d before retrieving a pocket knife from his backpack and chasing her around the beach, according to an arrest form. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI was scared,\u201d the victim, Yarielys Riobo, told Local 10 News. \u201cAll I was doing was backing up, all I was doing was watching him, because if I turned my back he would have launched at me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Two men from the group tackled Aguilar Santurio and a third person took his knife away until officers arrived, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI don\u2019t understand, I knew he had anger issues from the beginning,\u201d said Riobo. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Aguilar Santurio is facing charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and resisting an officer without violence. <\/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=\"Rosh Lowe\" 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\/d69633d3-fc9a-4bb5-94.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Rosh Lowe<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Reporter Rosh Lowe has been covering news for nearly two decades in South Florida. He joined Local 10 in 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 26, 2026 at 9:18 PM MIAMI BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A 18-year-old man from Miami-Dade County is facing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-285536","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\/285536","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=285536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}