{"id":299217,"date":"2026-06-07T15:13:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299217\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T15:13:09","slug":"investigation-underway-after-possible-drowning-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299217\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigation underway after possible drowning in Fort Lauderdale, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation is underway after a possible drowning in the New River, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department said on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>According to police, at about 5:07 a.m., officers responded to a possible drowning call in the 200 block of Southwest 2nd Avenue. Several witnesses reported a man had entered the water.<\/p>\n<p>FLPD, along with Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue and the BSO Aviation Unit, searched the area and located the man. He was transported to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead. <\/p>\n<p>FLPD told CBS News Miami that its homicide unit will conduct a death investigation to determine what led to the incident. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call the department.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation is underway after a possible drowning in the New River, the Fort Lauderdale Police Department said&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[506,2805,249,8999,123,125,124],"class_list":["post-299217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-broward-county","tag-drowning","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-police","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299217","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=299217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}