{"id":260705,"date":"2026-05-06T15:06:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:06:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260705\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:06:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:06:25","slug":"victim-pistol-whipped-and-robbed-another-bitten-outside-plantation-publix-cops-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260705\/","title":{"rendered":"Victim pistol-whipped and robbed, another bitten outside Plantation Publix, cops say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two suspects are facing charges after a violent robbery outside a Plantation Publix Wednesday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the parking lot of the Publix at 6921 West Broward Boulevard shortly after 8:15 p.m. after receiving information about a reported fight involving a firearm, Plantation Police said.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators determined that during the altercation, one suspect pulled out a handgun and struck one of the victims in the back of the head with it before stealing the victim&#8217;s cellphone.<\/p>\n<p>A second victim said they were bitten, punched and scratched by another suspect, police said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the victims was hospitalized with non-life threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Witnesses were able to identify the suspects&#8217; vehicle and officers conducted a traffic stop and took them into custody, police said.<\/p>\n<p>One suspect, 28-year-old Khamal J. Powell, is facing charges including robbery with a firearm and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, and was found to have a warrant out of Brevard County for criminal use of personal identification information, police said.<\/p>\n<p>The second suspect, 29-year-old Khalil S. Powell, is facing a battery charge.<\/p>\n<p>Both were booked into the Broward jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two suspects are facing charges after a violent robbery outside a Plantation Publix Wednesday night, police said. Officers&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,5074],"class_list":["post-260705","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-plantation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260705","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=260705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260705\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}