{"id":374100,"date":"2026-08-17T23:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374100\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T23:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T23:34:14","slug":"suspect-facing-murder-charge-stemming-from-hollywood-weekend-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/374100\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect facing murder charge stemming from Hollywood weekend shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"

Published:\u00a0August 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM<\/p>\n

Updated:\u00a0August 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM<\/p>\n

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HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Authorities have announced an arrest in connection to a fatal shooting that occurred in Broward County<\/a> over the weekend. <\/p>\n

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On Monday, police identified Johntavis Leroy Stevenson, 25, as the suspect who opened fire just before 2:20 a.m. Sunday along the 2700 block of Arthur Street in Hollywood. <\/p>\n

According to the Hollywood Police Department, officers responded to the scene after receiving reports of a shooting and arrived to find two victims. <\/p>\n

Hollywood Fire Rescue crews rushed both victims to Memorial Regional Hospital, where one was pronounced dead about an hour later, authorities said. <\/p>\n

The second victim remains hospitalized while being treated for his injuries, according to police. <\/p>\n

According to investigators, there was a gathering at the home where the shooting occurred, and detectives ultimately determined that Stevenson was responsible for the shooting and took him into custody. <\/p>\n

Stevenson has since been charged with first degree felony murder with a firearm, attempted felony murder with a firearm and possession of a firearm by a convicted felon. As of Monday afternoon, he was being held at the Broward Main Jail without bond. <\/p>\n

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David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 17, 2026 at 3:39 PM Updated:\u00a0August 17, 2026 at 4:17 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014 Authorities have…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-374100","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\/374100","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=374100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374100\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}