{"id":195099,"date":"2026-03-17T16:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195099\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T16:22:08","slug":"man-accidentally-shoots-woman-while-firing-at-thief-in-pompano-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/195099\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accidentally shoots woman while firing at thief in Pompano Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0March 17, 2026 at 11:57 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/I523SRE5IREJZEUUI5DLPD4AAQ.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/>William Forhan (Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">POMPANO BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 A 26-year-old man has been arrested after he accidentally shot a woman Monday night while firing at a thief who stole from him in Pompano Beach, the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to BSO spokeswoman Claudinne Caro, the shooting occurred Monday night in the area of Northeast 19th Street and 25th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Caro said detectives learned that William Forhan was the victim of a grand theft, and then fired at the thief as the thief was fleeing the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">But Caro said Forhan instead shot a woman who was nearby.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The victim was transported by paramedics to a local hospital with injuries that are believed to be non-life-threatening, Caro said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Forhan has since been arrested on charges of firing a missile into a dwelling and culpable negligence inflicting harm.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Tuesday afternoon, Forhan was being held at the Broward County Main Jail without bond. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The investigation remains ongoing.<\/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 17, 2026 at 11:57 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandWilliam Forhan (Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office) POMPANO BEACH, Fla. \u2014 A 26-year-old man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":195100,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-195099","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\/195099","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=195099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}