{"id":155801,"date":"2026-02-14T20:46:33","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:46:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155801\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T20:46:33","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T20:46:33","slug":"suspect-hospitalized-after-officer-fires-weapon-in-fort-lauderdale-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/155801\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect hospitalized after officer fires weapon in Fort Lauderdale \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday after an officer was forced to fire their weapon, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>According to Fort Lauderdale Police, the shooting happened near Chateau Park Drive and Northwest Ninth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect involved was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s unclear what the suspect was doing or what prompted the officer to fire their weapon. <\/p>\n<p>No other injuries were reported, and there is no threat to the community, police said. <\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is expected to take over the investigation, which is standard whenever there is an officer-involved shooting. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway in Fort Lauderdale on Saturday after an officer was forced to fire their weapon,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":66783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-155801","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\/155801","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=155801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}