{"id":304634,"date":"2026-06-12T01:25:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304634\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T01:25:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T01:25:10","slug":"teen-no-longer-facing-charges-in-fatal-new-years-eve-shooting-in-fort-lauderdale-beach-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/304634\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen no longer facing charges in fatal New Year\u2019s Eve shooting in Fort Lauderdale Beach \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"

A teen arrested in the fatal shooting of another teen on New Year’s Eve in Fort Lauderdale Beach<\/a> is no longer facing charges after investigators determined his actions were justified.<\/p>\n

The 17-year-old had been arrested in January in the shooting that happened in the area of 17 South Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard at around 11:30 p.m. on Dec. 31.<\/p>\n

The victim, 17-year-old Joshua Gipson Jr., died from his injuries. A close-out memo from the Broward State Attorney’s Office says Gipson was the aggressor.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cGipson was armed, made threats and attacked (two of the shooter\u2019s) friends, and within a minute, advanced on (the shooter) while reaching into his waistband, despite warnings to stop,” the memo said.<\/p>\n

The shooter was arrested 10 days after the shooting, but was then released. NBC6 is not identifying him because he is a minor.<\/p>\n

An investigation found Gipson had a gun on him and after the shooter shot him twice, Gipson’s friends fired back, creating chaos among the hundreds of people in the area.<\/p>\n

Detectives added that, before the shooting, Gipson attacked two of the shooter\u2019s friends, including pistol-whipping one of them.<\/p>\n

The investigation also found the teens knew each other through TikTok and had previously exchanged words on the platform based on the neighborhoods where they lived.<\/p>\n

Gipson’s family told NBC6 on Thursday that they are still mourning his death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teen arrested in the fatal shooting of another teen on New Year’s Eve in Fort Lauderdale Beach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":304635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-304634","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\/304634","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=304634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/304635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}