{"id":286255,"date":"2026-05-27T15:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286255\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T15:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T15:08:16","slug":"miami-beach-police-investigating-shooting-by-off-duty-officer-early-wednesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/286255\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami Beach police investigating shooting by off-duty officer early Wednesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-beach\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Beach<\/a> after police said an off-duty officer shot someone during an &#8220;incident&#8221; early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Few details have been released, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/miami-beach-police\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Miami Beach Police Department<\/a> said that officers responded to South Pointe Park, located at 1 Washington Avenue, just after 1 a.m. to investigate a reported <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shooting<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the preliminary investigation, police said that the victim, an off-duty law enforcement officer, was involved in an &#8220;incident&#8221; during which a gun was fired and a subject was hit.<\/p>\n<p>That subject was rushed to Jackson Memorial Hospital Ryder Trauma Center in critical condition by the Miami Beach Fire Department.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is now the lead investigative agency for the shooting, police said.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was released and the incident remains under investigation.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in Miami Beach after police said an off-duty officer shot someone during an &#8220;incident&#8221;&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,1642,125,124,1064,215,807],"class_list":["post-286255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-beach","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade","tag-shooting","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286255","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=286255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}