{"id":1925711,"date":"2023-05-06T10:26:32","date_gmt":"2023-05-06T14:26:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-of-ex-ufc-fighter-jorge-masvidal-arrested-for-attempted-murder-report\/"},"modified":"2023-05-06T10:27:38","modified_gmt":"2023-05-06T14:27:38","slug":"father-of-ex-ufc-fighter-jorge-masvidal-arrested-for-attempted-murder-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/father-of-ex-ufc-fighter-jorge-masvidal-arrested-for-attempted-murder-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Jorge Masvidal&#8217;s father arrested for attempted murder."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffather-of-ex-ufc-fighter-jorge-masvidal-arrested-for-attempted-murder-report%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1925711&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Retired UFC Fighter&#8217;s Father Charged with Attempted Murder<\/h2>\n<h3>What Happened?<\/h3>\n<p>The father of recently retired UFC fighter Jorge Masvidal was charged with attempted murder on Friday morning following a shooting incident that happened at Masvidal\u2019s home in Southwest Miami-Dade. TMZ reported that Jorge Masvidal Sr. was formally charged after he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/suspect-in-fatal-shooting-of-iowa-officer-has-long-criminal-history\/\" title=\"Suspect in fatal shooting of Iowa officer has long criminal history\">allegedly shot<\/a> a man named Luis Leoncini, who he reportedly knew, at his son\u2019s home after the two got into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/shocking-bodycam-footage-of-police-responding-to-altercation-between-georgia-democrat-senate-candidate-raphael-warnock-and-his-wife-released-video\/\" title=\"Shocking Bodycam Footage of Police Responding to Altercation Between Georgia Democrat Senate Candidate Raphael Warnock and His Wife Released (VIDEO)\">heated argument<\/a>. The 67-year-old was charged with attempted second-degree murder with a deadly weapon for allegedly shooting Leoncini in both arms near the kitchen. Police later recovered a firearm inside a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/how-hurricane-ida-showed-the-value-of-americas-energy-boom\/\" title=\"How Hurricane Ida Showed The Value Of America\u2019s Energy Boom\">kitchen cabinet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3>What Did the Police Say?<\/h3>\n<p>Miami-Dade Police responded to a call at the home around 3 p.m. on Thursday and discovered EMTs were providing aid to \u201can adult male who was shot in his upper extremities.\u201d Police said that the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/n-y-asian-american-man-assaulted-in-unprovoked-central-park-attack\/\" title=\"N.Y. Asian American man assaulted in unprovoked Central Park attack\">victim told<\/a> them that he was \u201cinvolved in an argument that escalated when the subject produced a firearm and shot him.\u201d Police confirmed that Masvidal, who retired from UFC last month, \u201cwas not present during the incident and did not have any involvement.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>What&#8217;s Next?<\/h3>\n<p>Masvidal is one of the most well-known fighters in the world and is especially big among conservatives as he has repeatedly praised Florida Governor Ron DeSantis and former President Donald Trump. Masvidal was scheduled to participate in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/man-shot-at-the-home-of-ex-ufc-star-jorge-masvidal-one-person-taken-into-custody\/\" title=\"Ex-UFC star Jorge Masvidal's home was the site of a shooting. One person has been arrested.\">bare knuckle fight<\/a> on Friday night. It\u2019s unclear whether those plans might change due to the incident that happened at his home.<\/p>\n<h3>Final Thoughts<\/h3>\n<p>This is a developing story and we will update as more information becomes available.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Retired UFC fighter Jorge Masvidal&#8217;s father charged with attempted murder<\/li>\n<li>Allegedly shot a man named Luis Leoncini after a heated argument<\/li>\n<li>Police recovered a firearm inside a kitchen cabinet<\/li>\n<li>Victim told police that the argument escalated when the subject produced a firearm and shot him<\/li>\n<li>Masvidal was not present during the incident and did not have any involvement<\/li>\n<li>Masvidal is scheduled to participate in a bare knuckle fight on Friday night<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The father of recently retired UFC fighter Jorge Masvidal was charged with attempted murder on Friday morning following a shooting incident that happened at Masvidal\u2019s home in Southwest Miami-Dade. TMZ reported that Jorge Masvidal Sr. was formally charged after he allegedly shot a man named Luis Leoncini, who he reportedly knew, at his son\u2019s home<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1925712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4376,11077,6453,23362,24314,4349],"class_list":["post-1925711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-arrested","tag-attempted","tag-father","tag-jorge","tag-masvidals","tag-murder"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925711","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1925711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1925711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1925712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1925711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1925711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1925711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}