{"id":299658,"date":"2026-06-08T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299658\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T06:35:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T06:35:08","slug":"fort-lauderdale-man-dies-in-drowning-police-investigate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/299658\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale man dies in drowning; police investigate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/police lights.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"A man drowned in Fort Lauderdale just after 5 a.m. on Sunday, June 7, 2026.\" alt=\"A man drowned in Fort Lauderdale just after 5 a.m. on Sunday, June 7, 2026.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        A man drowned in Fort Lauderdale just after 5 a.m. on Sunday, June 7, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>            Courtesy: Scott Rodgerson\/Unsplash<\/p>\n<p>Editor&#8217;s Note: A Fort Lauderdale man drowned early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale police got a call just after 5 a.m. about a man possibly drowning off the 200 block at Southwest Second Avenue. Witnesses saw the man enter the water.<\/p>\n<p>Police worked with Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue and the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office Aviation Unit to search the area. They found the man and Fire Rescue took him to Fort Lauderdale\u2019s Broward Health Medical Center, where he died.<\/p>\n<p>The Fort Lauderdale Police Department\u2019s Homicide Unit is investigating the case.<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/256031712\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/MBheadshot (1) Cropped.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Michael Butler\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/256031712\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Butler<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            Michael Butler writes about minority business and trends that affect marginalized professionals in South Florida. As a business reporter for the Miami Herald, he tells inclusive stories that reflect South Florida\u2019s diversity. Just like Miami\u2019s diverse population, Butler, a Temple University graduate, has both local roots and a Panamanian heritage.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man drowned in Fort Lauderdale just after 5 a.m. on Sunday, June 7, 2026. Courtesy: Scott Rodgerson\/Unsplash&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":299659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-299658","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\/299658","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=299658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/299659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}