{"id":79070,"date":"2025-12-10T23:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79070\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T23:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T23:17:31","slug":"grieving-mother-waiting-for-justice-following-death-of-bikes-up-guns-down-creator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79070\/","title":{"rendered":"Grieving mother waiting for justice following death of \u2018Bikes Up, Guns Down\u2019 creator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 It\u2019s been exactly two months and family members of activist Dwight Wells want to know why no one has been held accountable for his death. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That\u2019s why his friends, family, and especially his mother, Mary Brown, held a rally on Wednesday to bring attention to the unsolved case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019ll never lose hope when it comes to \u2018Screamer\u2019 Dwight Wells, I\u2019ll never lose hope,\u201d said Brown. \u201cI\u2019m going to be here until the end. I\u2019m in for it the long haul.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On Oct. 10, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/13\/vigil-ride-out-planned-to-honor-slain-activist-who-created-wheels-up-guns-down\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2025\/10\/13\/vigil-ride-out-planned-to-honor-slain-activist-who-created-wheels-up-guns-down\/\">the 40-year-old Wells was shot and killed in front of his restaurant<\/a>, Winning and Won Turkey Legs in Liberty City. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Surveillance video caught his final moments after the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brown said people have been calling about who may have killed her son, but she\u2019d rather hear it from police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThe street is talking all kind(s) of stuff,\u201d she said. \u201cHe\u2019s dead. The guy that killed your son. All kind(s) of stuff you can hardly think running through your mind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wells was the founder of \u201cBikes Up, Guns Down,\u201d an organization created to help young people redirect their violence and choose positivity. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For Brown, because her son didn\u2019t finish his work, she says she will continue it on the 10th of every month, outside of his business, until someone tells police who killed him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cAs the mother, I\u2019m saying you out there, you know something, and I know that you know something because when I know something I\u2019m going to tell something,\u201d she said. \u201cWhy don\u2019t you do the same for thing for us? Dwight didn\u2019t deserve this. Not this way anyway.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Brown said she appreciates the police for checking in on her and asking if she has heard anything. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information is urged to call Miami police. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIAMI \u2014 It\u2019s been exactly two months and family members of activist Dwight Wells want to know why&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226],"class_list":{"0":"post-79070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hialeah","8":"tag-hialeah","9":"tag-hialeah-headlines","10":"tag-hialeah-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79070","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=79070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}