{"id":330140,"date":"2026-07-05T19:47:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330140\/"},"modified":"2026-07-05T19:47:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T19:47:08","slug":"1-dead-in-shooting-at-fort-lauderdale-parking-garage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/330140\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in shooting at Fort Lauderdale parking garage"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fort Lauderdale police have detained and are questioning a man who surrendered voluntarily after a fatal shooting at the government center parking garage early Sunday, said department spokesman Sgt. Patrick O\u2019Brian.<\/p>\n

The shooting took place about 4:30 a.m. Sunday near Southwest Second Street and First Avenue.<\/a><\/p>\n

The victim, identified as James Cosey, 43, was taken to Broward Health Medical Center near downtown Fort Lauderdale and pronounced dead, said O\u2019Brian.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Brian said the shooter reported himself to police on his own and surrendered his weapon. The man was still being questioned Sunday afternoon and had not yet been charged.<\/p>\n

The investigation is ongoing, and police are asking anyone with information to call 954-828-5700.<\/p>\n

Rafael Olmeda can be reached at rolmeda@sunsentinel.com<\/a> or 954-356-4457.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale police have detained and are questioning a man who surrendered voluntarily after a fatal shooting at…\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-330140","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\/330140","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=330140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330140\/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=330140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}