{"id":187182,"date":"2026-03-11T13:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187182\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T13:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T13:07:07","slug":"man-taken-into-custody-after-firing-shots-through-bathroom-door-barricading-himself-inside-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/187182\/","title":{"rendered":"Man taken into custody after firing shots through bathroom door, barricading himself inside home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 11, 2026 at 7:21 AM<\/p>\n<p>Man arrested after shots fired inside Lauderhill home A man was arrested Tuesday night after firing shots inside a home in Lauderhill and then barricading himself inside, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">LAUDERHILL, Fla.  \u2014 A man was arrested Tuesday night after firing shots inside a home in Lauderhill and then barricading himself inside, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/11\/policia-de-lauderhill-hombre-detenido-tras-disparar-a-traves-de-puerta-del-bano-y-atrincherarse-en-una-casa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/03\/11\/policia-de-lauderhill-hombre-detenido-tras-disparar-a-traves-de-puerta-del-bano-y-atrincherarse-en-una-casa\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The shooting was reported at about 8:45 p.m. in the 5700 block of Blueberry Court. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Lauderhill police, officers arrived at the scene and were told by a family member that Anthony Hardwick was inside the home and had fired four shots through a bathroom door before barricading himself inside the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said they evacuated the residence and nearby homes as a precaution as officers made verbal contact with Hardwick, 27, in an attempt to have him safely exit the bathroom.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hardwick, however, refused, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office SWAT Team and negotiators responded to the scene and, after an \u201cextended period of time,\u201d helped officers take Hardwick into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hardwick was arrested on a charge of shooting within an occupied dwelling. A motive for the shooting remains unclear. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No injuries were reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Wednesday morning, Hardwick was not appearing in the online jail database. <\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 11, 2026 at 7:21 AM Man arrested after shots fired inside Lauderhill home A man was arrested&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-187182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187182","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=187182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}