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A man was shot in Fort Lauderdale and taken to Broward Health Medical Center with life-threatening injuries Wednesday morning, Oct. 7, 2026, police said.
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A man was hospitalized with “life-threatening injuries” in a shooting in Fort Lauderdale late Wednesday morning, police said.
Officers found the man wounded by gunfire in the 1700 block of Northwest 13th Court shortly after 11 a.m., police said. Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue paramedics took him to Broward Health Medical Center. Police have not released his identity.
Early in the afternoon, officers located a car in North Lauderdale they believe may be connected to the shooting and tried to pull it over, police said. The driver did not stop, and eventually got out of the car and ran away into a residence at Ann Lee Lane.
Officers took the person into custody “a short time later without issue,” Casey Liening, a Fort Lauderdale Police Department spokeswoman, said in a statement.
Detectives are investigating the person’s connection to the shooting, Liening said.
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David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.