{"id":162081,"date":"2026-02-20T03:04:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162081\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T03:04:14","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T03:04:14","slug":"body-found-in-fort-lauderdale-prompts-homicide-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162081\/","title":{"rendered":"Body found in Fort Lauderdale prompts homicide probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                <img class=\"responsive-image\" width=\"1140\" height=\"641\"  alt=\"A woman\u2019s body was discovered Wednesday morning on NW 15th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. Detectives believe the death is a homicide. \" title=\"A woman\u2019s body was discovered Wednesday morning on NW 15th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. Detectives believe the death is a homicide. \" \/><\/p>\n<p>        A woman\u2019s body was discovered Wednesday morning on NW 15th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. Detectives believe the death is a homicide. <\/p>\n<p>            File image<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale police have launched a homicide investigation after the body of a woman was found Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded around 7:30 a.m. to the 200 block of Northwest 15th Avenue following reports of a body. Initially, police said they were conducting a death investigation to determine the circumstances. Detectives later said that after a preliminary on-scene investigation, the woman\u2019s death was deemed suspicious and is now believed to be a homicide.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said the woman\u2019s name will be released once her family has been notified.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains active and ongoing. Police are urging anyone with information to contact FLPD as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/288625454\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milena Malaver<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Milena Malaver covers crime and breaking news for the Miami Herald. She was born and raised in Miami-Dade and is a graduate of Florida International University. She joined the Herald shortly after graduating.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman\u2019s body was discovered Wednesday morning on NW 15th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. Detectives believe the death&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162082,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,1109,667],"class_list":{"0":"post-162081","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","11":"tag-homicide","12":"tag-investigation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162081","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=162081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}