{"id":408304,"date":"2026-09-23T14:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408304\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T14:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T14:54:10","slug":"miami-detectives-identify-alleged-intruder-who-died-near-design-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/408304\/","title":{"rendered":"Miami detectives identify alleged \u2018intruder\u2019 who died near Design District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 23, 2026 at 10:20 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0September 23, 2026 at 10:35 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/EGM4332PSJHWVKNAJKOMFGL27U.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Miami homicide detectives released the identify of the alleged intruder who died on Monday morning after a shooting near the Design District area. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Melvin Diaz Cepeda died after the shooting at about 5 a.m. on Monday at a home at 4606 NW 5th Ave., according to the Miami Police Department\u2019s release on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cFirefighters pronounced him deceased on the scene,\u201d Lt. Pete Sanchez, a spokesman for Miami Fire Rescue, said in a statement. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officer Kenia Fallat, a spokeswoman for MPD, said detectives questioned one person during the investigation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detectives asked anyone with information about this or other cases to call Miami-Dade County Crime Stoppers at 305-471-8477 to remain anonymous.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News Senior Assignment Editor Frine Gomez contributed to this report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Location<\/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=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 23, 2026 at 10:20 AM Updated:\u00a0September 23, 2026 at 10:35 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand MIAMI \u2014 Miami homicide detectives&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":408305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[749,5526,5531,5529,5528,123,125,124,5530,5532,5527],"class_list":["post-408304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408304","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=408304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/408304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/408305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=408304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=408304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=408304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}