{"id":299289,"date":"2026-06-07T17:09:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:09:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299289\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T17:09:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T17:09:08","slug":"man-recovered-from-water-off-fort-lauderdale-has-died-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299289\/","title":{"rendered":"Man recovered from water off Fort Lauderdale has died: police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A death investigation was underway Sunday after a man was found in the water off downtown Fort Lauderdale, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 5 a.m., Fort Lauderdale police arrived at the 200 block of Southwest Second Avenue in response to a report of a possible drowning, police spokesperson Casey Liening said via email.<\/p>\n<p>Several witnesses said a man had gone in the water. Police, Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue and the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office Aviation Unit searched the area and located the man.<\/p>\n<p>He was pronounced dead at Broward Health Medical Center. Police did not release his name.<\/p>\n<p>Liening said detectives were investigating to determine what happened.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A death investigation was underway Sunday after a man was found in the water off downtown Fort Lauderdale,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":99515,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,28,249,251,250,114,266,115,109],"class_list":["post-299289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-florida","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299289","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=299289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/99515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}