{"id":314524,"date":"2026-06-21T01:17:25","date_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:17:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314524\/"},"modified":"2026-06-21T01:17:25","modified_gmt":"2026-06-21T01:17:25","slug":"detectives-work-to-identify-body-found-in-miami-dade-canal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/314524\/","title":{"rendered":"Detectives work to identify body found in Miami-Dade canal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM<\/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\/MEEH7TTRMTQAXPLCMDK63DMLLA.jpg\"  width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/>Police are investigating a shooting in Northwest Miami Dade (WPLG) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A body in a canal underneath a bridge prompted a death investigation on Saturday afternoon in northeastern Miami-Dade County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Miami Gardens Police Department, the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, and the Miami-Dade Medical Examiner\u2019s Office responded to the Miami Gardens-Ives Estates area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detective Angel Rodriguez said the body of the \u201cunknown male\u201d was in the area of Northeast Second Avenue and 199 Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe MDSO Homicide Bureau has assumed the investigation,\u201d Rodriguez said. \u201cThe manner and cause of death will be determined by the autopsy results.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Assignment Editor Wilson Louis contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location <\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" 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\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 20, 2026 at 9:02 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandPolice are investigating a shooting in Northwest Miami Dade (WPLG) MIAMI-DADE COUNTY,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-314524","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\/314524","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=314524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/314524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=314524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=314524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=314524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}