{"id":306749,"date":"2026-06-13T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306749\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T23:41:07","slug":"teen-cleared-after-ft-lauderdale-shooting-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306749\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen cleared after Ft Lauderdale shooting on New Year\u2019s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/LIFE-FAM-BORGMAN-FILEPIC-DMT.JPG\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The boy said he shot 17-year-old Joshua Gipson in self-defense.\" alt=\"The boy said he shot 17-year-old Joshua Gipson in self-defense.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The boy said he shot 17-year-old Joshua Gipson in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p>                Dreamstime<\/p>\n<p>            TNS<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors have dropped the criminal case against a 17-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting another teen on New Year\u2019s Eve in Fort Lauderdale.<\/p>\n<p>The boy said he shot 17-year-old Joshua Gipson in self-defense, according to a February no-file memo from the Broward State Attorney\u2019s Office. Prosecutors concluded that the evidence supported his claim.<\/p>\n<p>The boy and Gipson knew one another from TikTok, according to the memo. For a month prior to the shooting, they had \u201cexpressed distaste\u201d for one another online due to the neighborhoods they lived in.<\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/06\/12\/prosecutors-drop-case-against-teen-after-fatal-new-years-eve-shooting-citing-self-defense\/\">Read the full story at Sun-Sentinel.com.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The boy said he shot 17-year-old Joshua Gipson in self-defense. Dreamstime TNS Prosecutors have dropped the criminal case&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306750,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-306749","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\/306749","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=306749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306749\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}