{"id":328865,"date":"2026-07-03T23:03:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328865\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T23:03:16","slug":"answers-sought-as-family-gathers-for-candlelight-vigil-honoring-keisha-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328865\/","title":{"rendered":"Answers sought as family gathers for candlelight vigil honoring Keisha Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DANIA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A candlelight vigil honoring the life of Keisha Jones is set to start at 6:30 p.m. in Dania Beach on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/03\/buscan-respuestas-mientras-familia-realiza-vigilia-con-velas-en-honor-a-keisha-jones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/03\/buscan-respuestas-mientras-familia-realiza-vigilia-con-velas-en-honor-a-keisha-jones\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Her family and friends are coming together to cherish memories, but they\u2019re also searching for answers after her body washed ashore.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Four days after the remains of 31-year-old Keisha Nicole Jones washed ashore, family and friends are expected to gather to honor her life with a candlelight vigil.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Local 10 News sources, Jones\u2019 remains were discovered in the water off Virginia Key on Monday, near a NOAA research facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Just three days before the deadly discovery, surveillance cameras were rolling, believed to have captured her final moments. Friday morning, she\u2019s seen outside of Scarlett\u2019s Cabaret on Hallandale Beach Boulevard, leaving with a man.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators say earlier that morning, around 6 a.m., she was seen at Dean\u2019s Gold off 163rd Street in North Miami Beach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">How and why she ended up in the water is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Jones\u2019 family, most of whom live in Michigan, are left heartbroken and searching for clues to answer this puzzling mystery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The FBI is now heading up the death investigation. In a previous statement, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Investigation told Local 10 News: \u201cThe FBI is aware of this matter. Out of respect for the ongoing investigation, we will refrain from commenting on its substance.\u201d<\/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=\"Samiar Nefzi\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/9dfe9245-12b2-40be-bc.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Samiar Nefzi <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Samiar Nefzi joined the Local 10 News team in August of 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 5:38 PM Updated:\u00a0July 3, 2026 at 6:09 PM DANIA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A candlelight&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328866,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-328865","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\/328865","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=328865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}