{"id":182136,"date":"2026-03-07T15:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182136\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T15:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T15:16:09","slug":"trooper-shoots-after-knife-attack-by-woman-on-dolphin-expressway-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/182136\/","title":{"rendered":"Trooper shoots after knife attack by woman on Dolphin expressway \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A woman allegedly attacked a Florida Highway Patrol trooper with a knife early Saturday after driving the wrong way on State Road 836, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>Around 5:30 a.m., troopers responded to multiple calls reporting a vehicle traveling eastbound in the westbound lanes of SR-836, also known as the Dolphin Expressway, near Northwest 107th Avenue, according to the Florida Highway Patrol.<\/p>\n<p>A trooper located the stopped vehicle and approached the driver to investigate. Shortly after making contact, the woman allegedly pulled out a knife and attacked the trooper, FHP said.<\/p>\n<p>The trooper fired his service weapon, striking the woman, FHP said. <\/p>\n<p>Both the trooper and the suspect were transported to HCA Kendall Trauma. Authorities said their injuries were not life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is leading the investigation, which is standard procedure in incidents involving an officer\u2019s use of force.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have not identified the trooper or the woman involved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A woman allegedly attacked a Florida Highway Patrol trooper with a knife early Saturday after driving the wrong&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":182137,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-182136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182136","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=182136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=182136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=182136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=182136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}