{"id":312986,"date":"2026-06-19T12:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312986\/"},"modified":"2026-06-19T12:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-19T12:15:10","slug":"teen-charged-as-adult-in-fatal-hollywood-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/312986\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen charged as adult in fatal Hollywood shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 19, 2026 at 7:54 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/WC6IKVHIFZEPPBQ34O5EUZ5WWM.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>(Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 A 15-year-old boy has been charged as an adult in connection with a fatal shooting that occurred earlier this year in Hollywood.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Online jail records show Gentle Edwards was transferred from juvenile detention to the Paul Rein Detention Facility in Pompano Beach on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is charged with first-degree murder and aggravated assault with a deadly weapon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Hollywood police, Robin Bouza Jr., 17, was shot by Edwards shortly before 9:30 p.m. on April 22 in the 7300 block of Farragut Street. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Bouza was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edwards surrendered to authorities at the Hollywood Police Department on May 28.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A motive for the shooting has not been released by investigators.<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 19, 2026 at 7:54 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand(Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office) HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 A 15-year-old boy has been charged&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":312987,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-312986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312986","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=312986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}