{"id":396973,"date":"2026-09-11T15:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396973\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:26:08","slug":"man-72-accused-of-attacking-driver-with-baseball-bat-during-miami-dade-road-rage-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396973\/","title":{"rendered":"Man, 72, accused of attacking driver with baseball bat during Miami-Dade road rage incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla.  \u2014 A 72-year-old man was arrested Thursday after authorities said he struck another driver with a baseball bat during a road rage confrontation in southwest Miami-Dade.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/11\/acusan-a-hombre-de-72-anos-de-atacar-a-conductor-con-bate-de-beisbol-durante-incidente-de-furia-al-volante-en-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/09\/11\/acusan-a-hombre-de-72-anos-de-atacar-a-conductor-con-bate-de-beisbol-durante-incidente-de-furia-al-volante-en-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Sheriff\u2019s Office, Carlos Enrique Azuero, of southwest Miami-Dade, was taken into custody following the incident near Southwest 147th Avenue and Southwest 104th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The report states that a deputy was dispatched to the area at approximately 4:52 p.m. after receiving a report about a fight involving a man armed with a bat.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the victim, he and Azuero became involved in a road rage incident while both were driving southbound on Southwest 147th Avenue, just south of Southwest 104th Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said both men eventually got out of their vehicles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim told investigators that Azuero exited his vehicle carrying a baseball bat, approached him and swung the bat, striking him in the left arm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the report, the victim said he responded in self-defense by punching Azuero twice, knocking him to the ground.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said Azuero provided a similar account of what happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Miami-Dade Fire Rescue personnel responded to the scene, but both men refused medical treatment, the report states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators determined Azuero was the primary aggressor and arrested him on a charge of aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Azuero was transported to Jackson West Medical Center for medical clearance before being taken to the Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center without further incident, deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Friday morning, Azuero remained at TGK with a bond listed in online jail records as \u201cto be set.\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI-DADE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A 72-year-old man was arrested Thursday after authorities said he struck another driver with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-396973","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\/396973","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=396973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}