{"id":331852,"date":"2026-07-07T14:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331852\/"},"modified":"2026-07-07T14:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-07T14:26:09","slug":"mother-12-year-old-son-attacked-with-blunt-object-while-walking-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/331852\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother, 12-year-old son, attacked with \u2018blunt object\u2019 while walking in Fort Lauderdale, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0July 7, 2026 at 9:51 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0July 7, 2026 at 10:06 AM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BBCJC5COYVHYLEJ7KIIMHM6V2I.png\"  width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A woman and her 12-year-old son were attacked Tuesday morning while walking in Fort Lauderdale, authorities said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/07\/atacan-a-madre-y-a-su-hijo-de-12-anos-con-un-objeto-contundente-mientras-caminaban-en-fort-lauderdale-dice-la-policia\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/07\/07\/atacan-a-madre-y-a-su-hijo-de-12-anos-con-un-objeto-contundente-mientras-caminaban-en-fort-lauderdale-dice-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to Fort Lauderdale police, the incident was reported at about 7:30 a.m. in the 1000 block of Northwest Fifth Avenue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Detective Kerri Hagerty said the mother and son were approached from behind by an unknown person who struck both of them with a \u201cblunt object.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hagerty said the woman sustained a cut in the back of the head and the boy sustained an abrasion to his face.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Both victims were transported to Broward Health Medical Center. Their injuries were said to be non-life-threatening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Hagerty said the suspect fled the scene prior to officers arriving. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about the suspect\u2019s identity is asked to call the Fort Lauderdale Police Department or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.<\/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=\"Amanda Batchelor\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83776d46-011c-4018-ab.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Amanda Batchelor<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Amanda Batchelor is the Digital Executive Producer for Local10.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0July 7, 2026 at 9:51 AM Updated:\u00a0July 7, 2026 at 10:06 AM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35842,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-331852","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\/331852","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=331852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/331852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=331852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=331852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=331852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}