{"id":88286,"date":"2025-12-18T18:46:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88286\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T18:46:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T18:46:13","slug":"family-still-seeking-answers-in-killing-of-miami-activist-dwight-wells-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/88286\/","title":{"rendered":"Family still seeking answers in killing of Miami activist Dwight Wells \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A South Florida family is pleading for help in solving a shooting more than two months ago that claimed the life of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/40-year-old-man-fatally-shot-in-miami-while-playing-dominoes-overnight-police\/3704827\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/40-year-old-man-fatally-shot-in-miami-while-playing-dominoes-overnight-police\/3704827\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a Miami community activist and business owner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Dwight Wells was shot and killed outside his restaurant, Winning and Won Turkey Legs, back on Oct. 10, and the murder remains unsolved.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/101325-Dwight-C-Wells.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Dwight C. Wells\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Dwight C. Wells<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, his mother and other family members spoke, saying they believe someone knows who killed Wells.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I asked God myself, Why? What for?&#8221; mother Mary Brown said. &#8220;My son was lovable. Who shot my son? It would be a great relief to me, people don&#8217;t know how I hurt because I want to know who is the murderer.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wells was with a friend and his girlfriend when he was shot outside his business on Northwest 17th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police said a suspect walked up towards him, shot him and then ran away. The motive for the shooting was unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Wells, also known as &#8220;Screamer,&#8221; was a pillar in the community known as not only a business owner but activist who advocated for the community\u2019s youth.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance images released by police show a possible suspect who police are trying to identify.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Listen public. If I knew something I would tell something, especially if somebody took somebody&#8217;s son, brother, uncle, nephew, cousin, I would tell,&#8221; Brown said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A South Florida family is pleading for help in solving a shooting more than two months ago that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88287,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[225,227,226,123],"class_list":{"0":"post-88286","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","11":"tag-miami"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88286","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=88286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}