{"id":225382,"date":"2026-04-09T21:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225382\/"},"modified":"2026-04-09T21:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-09T21:10:16","slug":"man-accused-of-assaulting-fort-lauderdale-mayor-dies-by-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/225382\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of assaulting Fort Lauderdale mayor dies by suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A former boyfriend who was charged with attacking Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis died by suicide Thursday morning, police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>About 9:15 a.m., Daniel Curran, 35, was found outside one of the buildings in the Coral Ridge Towers development on Northeast 36th Street, a few blocks north of Oakland Park Boulevard and State Road A1A.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Police officers were dispatched to a possible suicide in the area, according to Sgt. Patrick O\u2019Brien, a spokesperson for the agency. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Police and city officials confirmed the victim was Daniel Curran on Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with profound sorrow that today we learned of the death of Danny Curran,\u201d Trantalis said in a statement. \u201cHe was a loving individual, and my sympathies go out to his family. Perhaps now, the pain he endured will subside. May he rest in peace.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Daniel Curran, 34, is facing charges of battery on a person over 65 and violating a court order of protection\" width=\"300\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/TFL-L-daniel-james-curran.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"13041789\" \/>Daniel Curran was arrested in November and facing charges of battery on a person over 65 and violating a court order of protection<\/p>\n<p>Curran was facing criminal charges stemming from his arrest last November after police said he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2025\/11\/07\/partner-of-fort-lauderdale-mayor-dean-trantalis-arrested-accused-of-assaulting-him\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">physically assaulted<\/a> the 72-year-old mayor and dragged him across the road. He was charged with battery on a person 65 years or older, a felony, and violating an injunction for protection against domestic violence, to which he pleaded not guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The two had been living together at the time, but had a tumultuous relationship, according to police and court records. The September before Curran\u2019s arrest, Trantalis had received a restraining order against him, saying that Curran had thrown objects at him and sent life-threatening messages to him and the police chief, according to the petition for the restraining order. The two had begun living together again before Curran\u2019s arrest in November.<\/p>\n<p>After Curran\u2019s arrest, a new stay-away order was granted in the criminal case. On Wednesday, the day before Curran\u2019s death, a judge had granted a request to modify the no-contact order, allowing Curran and the mayor to have contact over the phone and in public, court records show.<\/p>\n<p>Thursday was Curran\u2019s 35th birthday.<\/p>\n<p>If you or someone you know is having suicidal thoughts, contact the 988 suicide and crisis hotline, or contact 211 Broward Crisis and Suicide Care Support at 211-broward.org.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A former boyfriend who was charged with attacking Fort Lauderdale Mayor Dean Trantalis died by suicide Thursday morning,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225383,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,28,249,251,250,114,266,115,109],"class_list":{"0":"post-225382","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-broward-county","9":"tag-crime-and-public-safety","10":"tag-florida","11":"tag-fort-lauderdale","12":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","13":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","14":"tag-latest-headlines","15":"tag-local-news","16":"tag-news","17":"tag-social"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225382","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=225382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}