{"id":102933,"date":"2026-01-02T05:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/102933\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T05:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T05:08:09","slug":"new-years-eve-shooting-at-fort-lauderdale-beach-place-cops-say-a-teen-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/102933\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Eve shooting at Fort Lauderdale Beach Place, cops say. A teen is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There was a New Year\u2019s Eve shooting in the Fort Lauderdale beach area, according to Fort Lauderdale police, and social media said the shooting killed a 17-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said the shooting happened at Beach Place, 17 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Blvd. and sent one person to a hospital. By Thursday morning, Facebook and Instagram posts had identified the victim as Somerset Academy student Joshua Gipson Jr.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Along with 16-year-old Orlando Wedderburn, that means at least two teenagers were shot to death Wednesday night in Broward County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article314107643.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:READ MORE: 16-year-old Tamarac boy fatally shot. Shooter is claiming self-defense, BSO says;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">READ MORE: 16-year-old Tamarac boy fatally shot. Shooter is claiming self-defense, BSO says<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information on this can reach out to Fort Lauderdale police at 954-764-4357 (HELP) or Broward Crime Stoppers, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.browardcrimestoppers.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:either online or;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">either online or<\/a> at 954-493-8477 (TIPS).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/news\/local\/crime\/article314102266.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:READ MORE: What you know about the Fort Lauderdale mass shooting could be worth $25,000;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">READ MORE: What you know about the Fort Lauderdale mass shooting could be worth $25,000<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There was a New Year\u2019s Eve shooting in the Fort Lauderdale beach area, according to Fort Lauderdale police,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":102934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[53606,249,29142,251,250,42452,53607,6097],"class_list":{"0":"post-102933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-beach-place","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-beach","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","13":"tag-new-years-eve","14":"tag-orlando-wedderburn","15":"tag-social-media"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}