{"id":413914,"date":"2026-09-29T17:28:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413914\/"},"modified":"2026-09-29T17:28:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-29T17:28:42","slug":"son-of-incoming-miami-dade-commissioner-gets-prison-in-2023-officer-shooting-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/413914\/","title":{"rendered":"Son of incoming Miami-Dade commissioner gets prison in 2023 officer shooting \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

The son of a newly-elected Miami-Dade commissioner was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday to shooting an officer more than three years ago<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Steve Gallon IV pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree murder in the March 8, 2023 shooting at a hearing in open court where he allowed the judge to decide his sentencing.<\/p>\n

He had been facing up to 30 years in prison but was given a much lesser sentence of 60 months with credit for time served.<\/p>\n

Gallon, now 36, has been behind bars<\/a> since his arrest in 2023.<\/p>\n

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Steve Gallon IV in court in 2023.<\/p>\n

“I’m glad it’s over, it’s been three and a half years that this family has been going through this ordeal,” defense attorney Roderick Vereen said after the hearing.<\/p>\n

Gallon is the son of Steve Gallon III, a former Miami-Dade School Board member who was recently elected to the Miami-Dade Board of Commissioners and takes office in January.<\/p>\n

Authorities said the officer, Sgt. Darrian Washington<\/a>, was conducting an undercover drug investigation when he was “ambushed” from behind.<\/p>\n

The officer was shot in the back of the head but the bullet just grazed him, officials said.<\/p>\n

Vereen later argued that police were chasing Galloon and another suspect with no lights, in a high crime neighborhood, with no insignia.<\/p>\n

“There’s no evidence that he knew that Sergeant Washington was a police officer. There was enough fault to go around,” Vereen said Tuesday. “It was something very unintentional.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The son of a newly-elected Miami-Dade commissioner was sentenced to prison after pleading guilty on Tuesday to shooting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":413915,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124,373],"class_list":["post-413914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-miami-dade-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413914","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=413914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413914\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413915"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}