Suspected gunman in Miami-area Wawa shooting arrested on murder charge
Miami-Dade County deputies booked the man accused of fatally shooting another man at a South Miami-Dade Wawa on a murder charge Monday evening, according to an arrest report released Tuesday.
The men appear to have known each other, and had a brief, heated argument moments before the deadly shot was fired, authorities said.
Here is what happened, according to the alleged shooter’s arrest report:
Both men entered the Wawa at Southwest 248th Street and 112th Avenue shortly before 4 p.m. and were recorded on the store’s camera system greeting each other. The victim, Juan Carlos Hoyos, 34, bought a drink, and both men got into his white SUV, which was parked in front of the store.
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The men spoke inside the vehicle for an hour then got out of the car.
Several witnesses told deputies that one of the men, later identified as Pablo Juarez, 43, who lives in the area, approached Hoyos holding a handgun in the down position pressed against his right leg.
Juarez was seen by the witnesses bumping his stomach against Hoyos’ torso. When Hoyos pushed him away, Juarez shot him.
Hoyos fell to the ground and crawled into the driver’s seat of his SUV. Miami-Dade Fire Rescue paramedics airlifted him to Jackson Memorial Hospital, where he died, Detective Angel Rodriguez said Monday.
Juarez left the store in a gray Chevy Silverado pickup truck. Fifteen minutes later, deputies stopped the truck heading west on Southwest 268th Street and 123rd Avenue. When they arrested Juarez, he was wearing an empty holster, according to the report.
As of Tuesday, Juarez was being held with bond yet to be set by a judge at Turner Guilford Correctional Center on one count of second-degree murder.
This story was originally published April 8, 2025 at 12:34 PM.
