{"id":103545,"date":"2026-01-02T19:08:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103545\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T19:08:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T19:08:16","slug":"boy-dies-following-new-years-eve-shooting-near-fort-lauderdale-beach-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/103545\/","title":{"rendered":"Boy dies following New Year\u2019s Eve shooting near Fort Lauderdale beach, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A boy has died after a shooting near Fort Lauderdale\u2019s beach on New Year\u2019s Eve, and an arrest has not yet been made.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers were called to <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/z8Xr5UBGTrZrhYF17\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:17 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">17 S. Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard<\/a> about 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, where they found the boy with a gunshot wound, Sgt. Patrick O\u2019Brien, a spokesperson for Fort Lauderdale Police, said in a statement Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The boy was taken as a trauma alert to Broward Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">O\u2019Brien did not provide the victim\u2019s age or name. Additional information about the shooting and what led up to it have not been released, but O\u2019Brien said detectives believe the shooting was isolated and there is no threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to contact Homicide Unit Detective J. Sanchez at 954-828-4900 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story, so check back for updates. <a href=\"https:\/\/signups.medianewsgroup.com\/?site=sun-sentinel.com&amp;prefId=115\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to have breaking news alerts sent directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A boy has died after a shooting near Fort Lauderdale\u2019s beach on New Year\u2019s Eve, and an arrest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":89981,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[53839,249,251,250,42452,53838],"class_list":["post-103545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-health-medical-center","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-new-years-eve","tag-patrick-obrien"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103545","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=103545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}