{"id":413522,"date":"2026-09-29T06:32:15","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:32:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413522\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T06:32:15","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T06:32:15","slug":"i-did-it-i-was-defending-myself-man-tells-miami-police-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413522\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I did it &#8230; I was defending myself,\u2019 man tells Miami police after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man was arrested in a Miami shooting on Sunday, telling officers that he &#8220;did it&#8221; but was defending himself, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers found a man shot in the leg shortly after 5 p.m. near Northwest 15th Avenue and 68th Street in Liberty City, Miami police said in an arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Micah Lendale Tilley, 33, of Opa-locka, approached one of the officers and said, &#8220;I did it,&#8221; police said. &#8220;The shooting, I was defending myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Surveillance footage from the area showed the victim, who was not identified by authorities, exiting a blue Ford Fiesta with a gun in his hand, police said. As the victim crossed the street, Tilley started firing a handgun at him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Then Tilley retrieved a rifle from a Subaru during the gunfight and started firing it at the victim, police said. The victim ran, and Tilley followed while continuing to fire the rifle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tilley was arrested on charges including attempted second-degree murder and criminal solicitation, police said. He was being held without bond Monday at Turner Guilford Knight Correctional Center. His public defender didn&#8217;t respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested in a Miami shooting on Sunday, telling officers that he &#8220;did it&#8221; but was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,8166,163846,36611],"class_list":["post-413522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-police","tag-micah-lendale-tilley","tag-surveillance-footage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413522","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=413522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}