​Zaire Wade, the 24-year-old son of Miami Heat great Dwyane Wade, is facing a felony domestic violence charge arising from an incident in June in Burbank, California. The charge follows a chaotic pre-dawn call to a residence last month, during which police recovered a handgun from the home and issued an emergency protective order for a woman involved in the situation. According to a TMZ report, Wade is charged with one felony count of domestic violence. The criminal complaint, filed Thursday in Los Angeles, ties the charge to a June 21 confrontation with a woman he was dating. At the time of his arrest, he was booked on three counts—felony domestic violence, criminal threats, and false imprisonment—but prosecutors pursued only the single felony count.
Burbank police were dispatched to the home around 5:30 a.m. on June 21 after a caller reported a woman screaming, said Dennis Broad of NBC Los Angeles. Upon arrival, officers found Wade and a woman with facial and bodily injuries, though medics on the scene determined she did not need hospital treatment. An emergency protective order was issued for the woman, whose identity has not been released publicly. Wade posted a $50,000 bond and was released the same day. A spokesperson for Burbank police previously indicated that detectives would present the case to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for filing considerations, per People magazine.
Neighbors had also phoned 911 that morning to report loud screaming and stomping from inside the home, with one call explicitly noting a woman with facial lacerations, according to the TMZ report. Earlier speculation that Wade might face an attempted murder charge did not come to fruition. Burbank police confirmed that the three original booking counts were the only ones under consideration before the Thursday filing of a single charge.
Dwyane Wade’s career has been among the most decorated in contemporary basketball. Drafted fifth overall by the Heat out of Marquette in 2003, he won three NBA championships, earned Finals MVP in 2006, and appeared in 13 All-Star Games. Miami retired his No. 3 jersey in 2020, and he was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 2023—and again in 2025 as part of the U.S. Olympic gold-medal-winning team from 2008. Since retiring, Wade has held minority ownership stakes in the Utah Jazz and Chicago Sky of the WNBA.
Zaire Wade, born in Chicago and raised mainly in Los Angeles, played his final year of high school basketball at Sierra Canyon and chose to forgo college to pursue professional basketball. He was selected 10th overall by the Salt Lake City Stars, the G League affiliate of the Utah Jazz, in the 2021 NBA G League Draft, following a significant injury in March 2022 aimed at improving search engine visibility.