{"id":237866,"date":"2026-04-19T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237866\/"},"modified":"2026-04-19T13:51:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T13:51:07","slug":"suspect-shoots-fort-lauderdale-k-9-officer-while-running-away-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237866\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect shoots Fort Lauderdale K-9 officer while running away, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Fort Lauderdale Police Department K-9 is expected to survive after officers said a suspect opened fire while running away from them Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The department said officers responded to a possible burglary call around 7:30 p.m. along the 1600 block of Northwest 16th Court. A perimeter was set up and air support was provided by the Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office Aviation unit.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, Fort Lauderdale Police said a suspect tried to run away and leave the perimeter. An officer then set the K-9 on the suspect to help catch the suspect. The suspect then fired a gun, hitting the dog. The K-9&#8217;s handler was able to get the dog to an emergency veterinary hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said they maintained the perimeter and SWAT responded to help. The department said the suspect, who remains unidentified as of publication, was found and resisted arrest. Another K-9 was used, and the suspect faced a bite before being taken into custody. The suspect was also taken to a medical center to be treated for the injuries sustained from the bite.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Police said a gun was recovered from the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The investigation is ongoing. No further suspects are being sought.<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Fort Lauderdale Police Department K-9 is expected to survive after officers said a suspect opened fire while&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,8999],"class_list":["post-237866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-fort-lauderdale-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237866","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=237866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}