{"id":114302,"date":"2026-01-11T18:49:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114302\/"},"modified":"2026-01-11T18:49:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T18:49:07","slug":"police-arrest-suspect-in-fatal-new-years-eve-shooting-that-killed-teen-football-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/114302\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest suspect in fatal New Year\u2019s Eve shooting that killed teen football star"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0January 11, 2026 at 10:19 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0January 11, 2026 at 10:38 AM<\/p>\n<p>Loved ones hold funeral for victim hours before arrest announcedArrest made in fatal Fort Lauderdale New Year&#8217;s Eve shooting <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 An emotional farewell was held on Saturday to honor a life cut tragically short.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Then on Sunday came an update in the case that those grieving loved ones had been waiting to hear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Family and friends of Joshua Gipson Jr. gathered at Right Way Ministries in Fort Lauderdale to say goodbye to the 17-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI appreciate the community for coming out but I still have a son that\u2019s never coming back home,\u201d his mother said during the service. \u201cHe was sweet. He was very outspoken, very outgoing, he was Josh.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">On New Year\u2019s Eve, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/01\/teen-killed-in-fort-lauderdale-shooting-on-new-years-eve\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/01\/teen-killed-in-fort-lauderdale-shooting-on-new-years-eve\/\">witnesses said Gipson was caught in the crossfire during a shooting outside a CVS in Fort Lauderdale Beach<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A group of teens were seen arguing just before midnight when the gunfire erupted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gipson was shot in the leg and the back and did not survive after being rushed to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The football player had big plans for his life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He was supposed to attend Virginia Tech next year, where he hoped to continue his football journey. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Gipson\u2019s family said Saturday that they were searching for justice and hoping investigators are able to find the people responsible. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hours later, on Sunday morning, police announced they had arrested 17-year-old Marquice Henry for the shooting. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No additional details were provided by authorities. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/honoring-joshua-gipson-jr-funeral-legacy-fund\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/honoring-joshua-gipson-jr-funeral-legacy-fund\">GoFundMe page <\/a>has been created to help Gipson\u2019s family with expenses following the teen\u2019s death. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Hannah Yechivi\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/878c3ada-e5a5-4129-8c64-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Hannah Yechivi <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Hannah Yechivi joined the Local 10 News team in May of 2024.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Brett Knese\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/d3b079d0-0444-499b-8cb7-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Brett Knese<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Brett Knese joined the Local 10 News team as a general assignment reporter in March 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0January 11, 2026 at 10:19 AM Updated:\u00a0January 11, 2026 at 10:38 AM Loved ones hold funeral for victim&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114303,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-114302","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-fort-lauderdale","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114302","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=114302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114302\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}