{"id":226098,"date":"2026-04-10T10:03:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226098\/"},"modified":"2026-04-10T10:03:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-10T10:03:14","slug":"ex-partner-charged-in-fort-lauderdale-mayor-assault-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/226098\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-partner charged in Fort Lauderdale mayor assault dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/1775815394_395_tfl-l-ftl-breaking-0409-02.jpg\"   width=\"1140\" height=\"641\" title=\"A Broward County Medical Examiner investigator is seen at the Coral Ridge Towers in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday.\" alt=\"A Broward County Medical Examiner investigator is seen at the Coral Ridge Towers in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A Broward County Medical Examiner investigator is seen at the Coral Ridge Towers in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>            Joe Cavaretta\/South Florida Sun Sentinel<\/p>\n<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>\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><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/04\/09\/ex-partner-accused-of-assaulting-fort-lauderdale-mayor-dies-by-suicide\/\">Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.<\/a><\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Broward County Medical Examiner investigator is seen at the Coral Ridge Towers in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226099,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-226098","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\/226098","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=226098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}