{"id":324266,"date":"2026-06-30T04:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324266\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T04:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T04:29:10","slug":"bso-suspect-dead-after-exchange-of-gunfire-with-deputies-plantation-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/324266\/","title":{"rendered":"BSO: Suspect dead after exchange of gunfire with deputies, Plantation officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DAVIE, Fla.  \u2014 Six Broward sheriff\u2019s deputies and a Plantation police officer were involved in a fatal shooting, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to BSO, a suspect that deputies had been seeking was observed pumping gas at the Wawa located at 6350 Stirling Road on Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As authorities converged on the suspect, they said a fight broke out between him and the approaching officers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Broward Sheriff Gregory Tony said the suspect was armed and was told to give up his gun, but when that didn\u2019t happen, it led to the exchange of gunfire. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Tony said the suspect was wanted for fleeing and eluding, and indicated that deputies had DNA evidence linking the suspect to additional crimes, through he did not specify beyond that. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He also did not say whether it was a deputy or the officer who fatally shot the suspect. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is expected to take over the investigation, as is customary with deputy involved shootings. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Bridgette Matter\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/2dda0f91-39c8-479e-9e.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Bridgette Matter<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Bridgette Matter joined the Local 10 News team as a reporter in July 2021. Before moving to South Florida, she began her career in South Bend, Indiana and spent six years in Jacksonville as a reporter and weekend anchor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 29, 2026 at 10:27 PM DAVIE, Fla. \u2014 Six Broward sheriff\u2019s deputies and a Plantation police officer&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":324267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-324266","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\/324266","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=324266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/324267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}