{"id":355774,"date":"2026-07-29T03:10:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:10:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355774\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T03:10:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T03:10:08","slug":"florida-amber-alert-suspect-shot-and-killed-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/355774\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida AMBER Alert suspect shot and killed \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dashcam video shows the moments Florida law enforcement closed in on the suspect of an AMBER Alert before deputies shot and killed him.<\/p>\n<p>The AMBER Alert was issued Monday after officials said Jason Castillo kidnapped the 13-year-old daughter of his ex-girlfriend from her Ocala home.<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation between the 45-year-old suspect and Marion County deputies happened less than 24 hours after the alert was issued.<\/p>\n<p>Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s officials said someone recognized Castillo&#8217;s vehicle in the AMBER Alert and called 911.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies tracked down the vehicle and used a PIT maneuver to stop it. The footage shows Castillo pointing a gun.<\/p>\n<p>Amid the confrontation, eight deputies and a police officer opened fire, killing Castillo.<\/p>\n<p>The girl is <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/fdlepio\/status\/2081882512268161183?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">home safe<\/a>, officials reported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dashcam video shows the moments Florida law enforcement closed in on the suspect of an AMBER Alert before&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355775,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-355774","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\/355774","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=355774"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355774\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355774"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355774"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355774"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}