{"id":188158,"date":"2026-03-12T03:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188158\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T03:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T03:08:08","slug":"911-calls-reveal-discovery-of-man-later-found-dead-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/188158\/","title":{"rendered":"911 calls reveal discovery of man later found dead in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM<\/p>\n<p>911 calls reveal moments after man found dead in Fort Lauderdale <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Investigators say they believe Joe Czaplinksi was riding a skateboard when he fell onto the roadway and was later <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/10\/pedestrian-dies-in-crash-in-fort-lauderdale\/#wplg-comments\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/03\/10\/pedestrian-dies-in-crash-in-fort-lauderdale\/#wplg-comments\">hit by a car early Tuesday.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The crash happened along State Road A1A and Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale &#8212; less than a mile from McSorley\u2019s Beach Pub, where he worked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">911 calls released Wednesday reveal the moments a passerby discovered Czaplinksi lying in the road.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThere\u2019s a young man in the road, like he got hit or something,\u201d a caller told dispatchers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The caller said Czaplinksi was bleeding and quickly lost consciousness.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cHe just passed out on the floor. He\u2019s unconscious right now. But I don\u2019t know if he hit hit, oh my God, oh my God! Holy cow! He hit his head and it\u2019s &#8212; there\u2019s blood everywhere,\u201d the caller said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Czaplinksi, 40, was pronounced dead at the scene. He leaves behind four children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Fort Lauderdale Police Department Traffic Homicide Unit is investigating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">While police have not called the case a hit-and-run, investigators say the driver did not stop to help and they want to speak with that person. No description of the vehicle has been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Loved ones have created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-bring-joseph-czaplinski-home\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/help-bring-joseph-czaplinski-home\">GoFundMe<\/a> page to help family members travel to Florida and bring Czaplinksi back to Maryland to be cremated.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">A coworker at McSorley\u2019s Beach Pub told Local 10 News employees there are heartbroken and hope investigators are able to find answers soon.<\/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=\"Bridgette Matter\" 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\/2dda0f91-39c8-479e-9e.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Bridgette Matter<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Bridgette Matter joined the Local 10 News team as a reporter in July 2021. Before moving to South Florida, she began her career in South Bend, Indiana and spent six years in Jacksonville as a reporter and weekend anchor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0March 11, 2026 at 10:40 PM 911 calls reveal moments after man found dead in Fort Lauderdale FORT&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-188158","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\/188158","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=188158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}