{"id":376547,"date":"2026-08-20T13:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376547\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T13:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T13:28:08","slug":"man-sentenced-to-life-after-killing-miami-woman-setting-home-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/376547\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to life after killing Miami woman, setting home on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI  \u2014 A 44-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after fatally shooting his partner and then setting her home on fire back in August of 2024, the Miami-Dade State Attorney\u2019s Office confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/20\/condenan-a-cadena-perpetua-a-hombre-por-matar-a-mujer-de-miami-e-incendiar-vivienda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/20\/condenan-a-cadena-perpetua-a-hombre-por-matar-a-mujer-de-miami-e-incendiar-vivienda\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Court records show Marcus Sanchez, of Medley, was convicted of second-degree murder, first-degree arson and tampering with evidence. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami Police Department, firefighters <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2024\/08\/19\/firefighters-find-person-dead-after-house-fire-in-miami\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">responded to a blaze on the morning of Aug. 18, 2024<\/a>, at a home in the 3000 block of Southwest 13th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News learned the home was used as a multi-unit short term rental property, and police confirmed that the fire occurred in the rear unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the arrest report, while working to extinguish the flames, firefighters discovered a burned body on the floor of the unit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While securing the scene, a dispatcher advised that a man, later identified as Sanchez, had driven himself to Coral Gables Hospital, seeking medical treatment for severe burns all over his body.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Sanchez was then transferred to Jackson Memorial Hospital\u2019s Ryder Trauma Center due to the severity of his injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the arrest report, a detective spoke with Sanchez as he was being transferred to the trauma center, but Sanchez\u2019s statement to the detective was redacted from the publicly released report. Investigators said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/01\/21\/man-arrested-after-burned-body-found-on-floor-of-miami-home\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/01\/21\/man-arrested-after-burned-body-found-on-floor-of-miami-home\/\">Sanchez killed the victim<\/a>, a woman he had been in a relationship with for years, and set the home on fire to cover up the crime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the fire marshal investigating the cause of the blaze deployed an \u201carson dog\u201d named Rex, which identified accelerant on Sanchez\u2019s shoes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Surveillance video from a Chevron gas station also showed Sanchez purchasing a red five-gallon fuel can and then filling it up at a pump, authorities said.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 A 44-year-old man was sentenced to life in prison Wednesday after fatally shooting his partner and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376548,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-376547","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\/376547","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=376547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}