{"id":395829,"date":"2026-09-10T13:10:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395829\/"},"modified":"2026-09-10T13:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-10T13:10:10","slug":"man-convicted-of-killing-neighbor-neighbors-2-sons-in-north-miami","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/395829\/","title":{"rendered":"Man convicted of killing neighbor, neighbor\u2019s 2 sons in North Miami"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 10, 2026 at 8:16 AM<\/p>\n<p>Nearly three years after a father and his two sons were shot and killed in North Miami, a jury has convicted the accused gunman of first and second-degree murder. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">NORTH MIAMI, Fla.  \u2014 Nearly three years after a father and his two sons were shot and killed in North Miami, a jury has convicted the accused gunman of first and second-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Pierce Hoempler got into a physical fight with his neighbor, Hector Rivera, outside an apartment building in November 2023, and pinned him down on the lawn.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When Rivera\u2019s two sons came to his aid, police say Hoempler, then 33, shot all three of them, killing them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Relatives identified the victims as Hector, Frankie and Jeremy Rivera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2024\/01\/23\/video-shows-arrest-of-north-miami-triple-murder-suspect\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2024\/01\/23\/video-shows-arrest-of-north-miami-triple-murder-suspect\/\">Body camera footage<\/a> obtained by Local 10 News shows Hoempler\u2019s arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the deadly triple shooting happened in the 12000 block of Northeast Fifth Avenue, just south of 123rd Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">In the video, Hoempler attempted to make a self-defense claim, however he was taken into custody and was ordered jailed without bond.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is expected to be sentenced next month.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/VQAB562A7VCR3EVQYWCY2KFUPQ.jpg\"  width=\"800\" height=\"800\"\/><\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/6MNVTXJEDBE6TCNZGSMH4XJE.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 10, 2026 at 8:16 AM Nearly three years after a father and his two sons were shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-395829","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\/395829","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=395829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}