{"id":299169,"date":"2026-06-07T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299169\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T13:49:09","slug":"man-dies-after-falling-in-fort-lauderdale-river-despite-life-saving-efforts-by-good-samaritan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299169\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies after falling in Fort Lauderdale river despite life-saving efforts by good Samaritan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 An investigation is ongoing after the death of a man in Fort Lauderdale. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to authorities, a call came in around 5:07 a.m. regarding a possible drowning along the 200 block of Southwest Second Avenue. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Local 10 News spoke to a man who tried to save that victim before rescue crews arrived.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The man who asked not to be identified said he was sitting along the Riverwalk with his girlfriend when he saw an older man stumble into the water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He says he went in after him without hesitation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI went in myself, I grabbed him by his two hands,\u201d the man said. \u201c\u2019Bro, what are you doing? You know you\u2019re in the water, right?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">For a moment, that good Samaritan thought he could bring the older man to safety, but said that the situation quickly changed. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cThat\u2019s when I slipped in the water,\u201d he said. \u201cAfter that, I get all wet and after that he went under the water. I had him for a little second and then he pulled away from me and fell into the water and he never came back up.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">First responders rushed to the scene but the man who fell in the water did not survive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the death is being classified as undetermined, though they say it appears the man drowned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Now, detectives are working to figure out exactly what happened before the man ended up in the water.<\/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=\"Isabella Martin\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/09e8bd89-5433-45a7-b775-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Isabella Martin<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Isabella Martin joined the reporting team at WPLG in July 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 7, 2026 at 9:28 AM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 An investigation is ongoing after the death of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299170,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-299169","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\/299169","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=299169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299169\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}