{"id":144999,"date":"2026-02-05T18:07:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144999\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T18:07:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T18:07:08","slug":"fort-lauderdale-police-locate-boy-accused-of-stomping-duck-to-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/144999\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale police locate boy accused of stomping duck to death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0February 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Fort Lauderdale police have located a suspect believed to be involved in the killing of a wild duck <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/21\/graphic-video-shows-child-stomping-duck-to-death-in-fort-lauderdale\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/21\/graphic-video-shows-child-stomping-duck-to-death-in-fort-lauderdale\/\">caught on home surveillance video last month<\/a>, though the boy has not yet been publicly identified, authorities confirmed Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The aggravated animal abuse case occurred around 5 p.m. Jan. 18 at a home in the 300 block of Southwest Eighth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said a homeowner contacted officers after reviewing surveillance footage that showed a boy cornering and then stomping a wild duck to death on the property. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers who responded confirmed the incident and obtained the video as evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward County Animal Care removed the duck\u2019s carcass from the side of the home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the boy seen in the video, along with a parent, have been located following information provided by the public through social media. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Authorities said the case has allowed police to intervene with assistance from the Florida Department of Children and Families.<\/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=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0February 5, 2026 at 12:41 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Fort Lauderdale police have located a suspect believed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-144999","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\/144999","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=144999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}