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A 21-year-old man and an 18-year-old man were arrested last week and accused in connection with a shooting that left a family’s dog dead. An arrest report from the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office showed Nathan Kizer was arrested Wednesday after investigators found him in a car that was seen around the time of the shooting in the Lake Forest neighborhood on Aug. 15. Kizer was charged with shooting into an occupied building with a semi-automatic weapon. One of the victims told JSO

A 20-year-old man was identified as a victim who was killed when shots were fired at his car in Miami Gardens. Another person who was in the car was rushed to the hospital and three children were in the back seat, police said. The shooting took place Sunday in the area of Northwest 183rd Street and 45th Avenue, at around 8:40 p.m. According to police, Mah’ki Cutler was killed in what they referred to as a targeted shooting. “Our victims were coming

A Miami man was criminally charged last Friday, more than two years after he shot two people during a road rage incident on Florida’s Turnpike, authorities said. Jermaine Marquan Jackson, 30, faces charges of attempted murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, shooting or throwing a deadly missile and improper exhibition of a firearm. According to his arrest report, the shooting occurred around 1 p.m. on Jan. 11, 2022, in the southbound lanes of the Turnpike at the Golden Glades

A self-proclaimed social media model is now facing four new charges for allegedly driving drugged on a substance known as “pink cocaine” and causing a deadly crash that killed two people. Last week, 24-year-old Maecee Marie Lathers was arrested and charged with eight counts including driving with a suspended license and causing a death. However, a week later prosecutors charged the woman with two counts of vehicular homicide and two counts of reckless driving. In total, she faces 12 charges. Police found

A heated argument between two men in Boca Raton turned into a deadly stabbing. The Palm Beach County Sheriff’s Office (PBSO) reported that on August 6, at around 10:40 p.m., Peterson Eliantus, 37, called the victim, and they began to argue. Deputies stated that Eliantus then proceeded to drive with a friend to the home that the victim was staying at, located near the intersection of Southwest 9th Street and Southwest 54th Way in Boca Raton. According to the report,

A pedestrian was taken to a hospital after being struck by a car in Kendall Monday morning, according to Miami-Dade Police. NBC6 cameras captured officers as they responded to the scene near the 16000 block of Southwest 62nd Street. Video shows several items underneath a white Honda Civic near a home’s driveway, including what appears to be a pair of shoes. The circumstances surrounding this incident and the pedestrian’s condition have not been released. This is a developing story. Pedestrian

A delivery driver put a 4-month-old child back in their stroller after striking the mother’s vehicle before fleeing the scene, according to Miami-Dade police. On Thursday morning, the police department said a mother was crossing the intersection of Northeast 7th Avenue and Northeast 191 Street in Miami, pushing her son in a stroller while walking her dog, when she was struck by a delivery driver. The 30-year-old mom was knocked down, and the child was ejected from his stroller, landing

photo by: wsvn  Miami Police and Miami Fire Units responded to a fire involving an unmarked police vehicle in Miami. The blaze occurred shortly before 7 p.m. Thursday at the intersection of Sixth Avenue and West Flagler Street. Video of the scene from @Iamalexthegr8 on Instagram showed the unmarked police car fully engulfed in flames and smoke spewing from the vehicle. Fortunately, no injuries were reported in the incident. Authorities temporarily shut down the bridge in the area as they worked to

A tragic accident occurred Friday evening around 6:20 pm on US-19, resulting in the death of a 20-year-old woman from Spring Hill. The woman was driving a Kia K5 northbound on US-19 when, for reasons currently unknown, she lost control of the vehicle north of SR-50. The car veered off the road, crossed the east shoulder, went through an embankment, and struck a utility pole. The impact propelled the vehicle through the parking lot of the Animal Care Center Weeki

Fort Walton Beach police say they are investigating after a motorcyclist was reportedly killed in a crash on Saturday. Officers said around 5 p.m. at the intersection of Beal Parkway and Garnett Ave NE, a motorcycle and pickup truck crashed. They said the motorcyclist had been driving north on Beal Parkway, about to go through the intersection, as the pickup truck turned left off of Garnett Ave onto Beal Parkway. Fort Walton Beach police officers said when emergency medical personnel

Police have identified the man who shot and killed the mother of their three children before shooting himself while the children were home in northwest Miami-Dade on Saturday morning. Marcos Antonio Gonzalez, 40, has been identified as the shooter who took the life of Raiza Cajuso, 39. The two had been in a relationship, but had separated and were not living together at the time of the shooting, police confirmed. The fatal shots were fired at around 8:34 a.m., after Gonzalez showed

A fight over an attempted dog adoption escalated to an aggravated assault investigation, according to the Tampa Police Department. According to TPD, during an attempted dog adoption on Meadowbrook Avenue around noon on Saturday, two women got into an altercation, leading to one woman pulling a gun. Investigators said the two women gave conflicting statements about events leading up to the incident and that the firearm on the scene was seized as evidence. “As with all cases, the Tampa Police