{"id":171624,"date":"2026-02-27T16:11:26","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171624\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:11:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T16:11:26","slug":"fort-lauderdale-police-address-rumors-following-homicide-arrest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/171624\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale Police Address Rumors Following Homicide Arrest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A week after a woman was found dead in Fort Lauderdale, police are working to calm community concerns and dispel online rumors surrounding the case.<\/p>\n<p>During a Tuesday press conference, investigators emphasized that there is no evidence of a serial killer, calling such claims unfounded and harmful. Fort Lauderdale Police Homicide Sgt. Don Geiger said the speculation has caused unnecessary fear among residents and their families.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have arrested Altavious Powell, who was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in connection with the death of 30-year-old Daneshia Heller. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A week after a woman was found dead in Fort Lauderdale, police are working to calm community concerns&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":171625,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":{"0":"post-171624","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\/171624","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=171624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171624\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/171625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}