{"id":261858,"date":"2026-05-07T11:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261858\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T11:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T11:08:09","slug":"1-shot-in-leg-in-fort-lauderdale-victim-declines-to-prosecute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/261858\/","title":{"rendered":"1 shot in leg in Fort Lauderdale; victim declines to prosecute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 7, 2026 at 6:48 AM<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Thursday morning and left one person injured, authorities confirmed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Fort Lauderdale police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Thursday morning and left one person injured, authorities confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to police, the shooting was reported at about 4 a.m. in the 1000 block of Southwest 15th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said officers arrived at the scene and found a victim who had been shot in the leg.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Officers administered first aid to the victim before Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue arrived and transported him or her to Broward Health Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the victim declined prosecution against the suspect and declined to provide a description of that person. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details were immediately released.<\/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\/05\/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:\u00a0May 7, 2026 at 6:48 AM Fort Lauderdale police are investigating a shooting that occurred early Thursday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":261859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-261858","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\/261858","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=261858"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/261858\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/261859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=261858"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=261858"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=261858"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}