{"id":128573,"date":"2026-01-23T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128573\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T01:36:10","slug":"police-offer-5000-reward-to-find-florida-kid-seen-stomping-killing-duck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/128573\/","title":{"rendered":"Police offer $5,000 reward to find Florida kid seen stomping, killing duck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police are searching for a young child seen on video brutally stomping and killing a duck in a Florida resident\u2019s yard, according to authorities and reports. <\/p>\n<p>Disturbing surveillance video released by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department showed two young children running around a duck before one child chased the bird into the paved alleyway of a home Sunday,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/news\/fort-lauderdale-police-search-child-duck-killing-reward\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> CBS Miami reported. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kid stomped on the feathered creature a whopping seven times, killing it, the clip showed. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.56933594;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38260710\" width=\"336\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/000-reward-find-florida-kid-119471845.jpg\" alt=\"A person in a gray shirt and shorts stomping on a black and white duck next to a wooden fence.\" class=\"wp-image-38260710\"  \/>Police are searching for a young child who brutally stomped on and killed a duck in a Florida resident\u2019s yard.  Ft Lauderdale Police Department<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Lauderdale homeowner called cops after noticing the juvenile trespassing on his property, and was shocked when he watched the gruesome security footage on his Ring camera, police<a href=\"https:\/\/wsvn.com\/news\/local\/broward\/police-seek-help-identifying-juvenile-in-fort-lauderdale-duck-killing-caught-on-video\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> told WSVN.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Detectives are now seeking help identifying the child and are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. <\/p>\n<p>Residents of the area, home to many waterfowl, described the incident as deeply concerning. <\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:0.89648438;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"38260708\" width=\"529\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/000-reward-find-florida-kid-119471849.jpg\" alt=\"A young child with an afro and dark clothing on a brick path, next to a building and a wooden fence, with green bushes and palm trees.\" class=\"wp-image-38260708\"  \/>Detectives are now seeking help identifying the child and are offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.  Ft Lauderdale Police Department<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was appalled that that would even happen in this neighborhood, for that to happen and see the photo, it is obviously very bad,\u201d neighbor Ross Schmidt told WSVN.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou know, you don\u2019t know what\u2019s inside people\u2019s minds, but it\u2019s definitely a very big anger issue, and he wasn\u2019t brought up right, or he wasn\u2019t thinking properly,\u201d Schmidt added. <\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Police have removed the graphic footage of the incident from their social media platforms and did not immediately respond to The Post\u2019s request for comment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police are searching for a young child seen on video brutally stomping and killing a duck in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128574,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[10238,28,249,251,250,3858,4278],"class_list":{"0":"post-128573","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-animal-abuse","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","13":"tag-investigations","14":"tag-us-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128573","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=128573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}