{"id":144933,"date":"2026-02-05T17:12:20","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144933\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T17:12:20","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T17:12:20","slug":"police-id-child-who-was-caught-on-camera-killing-duck-in-fort-lauderdale-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144933\/","title":{"rendered":"Police ID child who was caught on camera killing duck in Fort Lauderdale \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in Fort Lauderdale said they&#8217;ve identified a child who was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/police-searching-for-child-who-was-caught-on-camera-killing-duck-in-fort-lauderdale\/3752375\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/police-searching-for-child-who-was-caught-on-camera-killing-duck-in-fort-lauderdale\/3752375\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">caught on camera brutally killing a duck<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p>Video released by the Fort Lauderdale Police Department showed the incident that happened back on Jan. 18 in the 300 block of Southwest 8th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The video shows two young children running outside when one of them chases a duck, grabs it, then proceeds to repeatedly stomp on it, ultimately killing it.<\/p>\n<p>Police called it a case of aggravated animal abuse and asked for the public&#8217;s assistance to find the child but on Thursday said the child and their parent were identified.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Fort Lauderdale Police Department would like to extend our deepest gratitude to our community for their assistance,&#8221; the department said in a statement. &#8220;Information received from the public via social media helped identify these at-risk juveniles, allowing us to provide intervention along with our partners at the Department of Children and Families.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police gave no other details but said the investigation was still active.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Fort Lauderdale said they&#8217;ve identified a child who was caught on camera brutally killing a duck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1009,249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-144933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-caught-on-camera","9":"tag-fort-lauderdale","10":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144933","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=144933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}