{"id":302766,"date":"2026-06-10T16:45:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302766\/"},"modified":"2026-06-10T16:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T16:45:19","slug":"5-year-old-girl-dies-after-shooting-inside-florida-city-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/302766\/","title":{"rendered":"5-year-old girl dies after shooting inside Florida City home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 5-year-old girl died Wednesday after she was shot inside a Florida City home, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Florida City police were called around 1:55 a.m. to a home in the 1400 block of Northwest 1st Court after a shooting was reported. Officers found the child with a gunshot wound to her torso, according to the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>A Florida City officer took the girl and her mother to Homestead Hospital. The child was later airlifted to HCA Florida Kendall Hospital, where she died.<\/p>\n<p>Family members identified the child as Genova Parks. Her grandmother described her as bright and full of life, and said the shooting should never have happened inside a home.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said five people were inside the residence when the shooting occurred: Genova, her 4-year-old brother, her mother and two adult men.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/florida-crime-news-officer-placed-on-leave-after-alleged-dui-crash-er-altercation-with-deputies-south-florida-palm-beach-county-sheriffs-office-west-palm-beach-police-department-dui-testing-refusal-sw-18th-street-and-carolwood-lane-boca-raton-standards\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WPB officer placed on leave after alleged DUI crash, ER altercation with deputies<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office Homicide Bureau is leading the investigation. Detectives said a firearm was found inside the home, but authorities have not said whether the shooting was accidental or intentional.<\/p>\n<p>No arrests have been announced.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are continuing to process evidence and interview the people who were inside the home as they work to determine what led to the shooting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A 5-year-old girl died Wednesday after she was shot inside a Florida City&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302767,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-302766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302766","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=302766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}