{"id":333235,"date":"2026-07-08T16:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333235\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T16:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T16:02:07","slug":"man-found-shot-to-death-in-car-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333235\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found shot to death in car in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Homicide detectives are investigating after a man was found dead with a bullet wound inside of his car in Fort Lauderdale early Wednesday, police say.<\/p>\n<p>A Shot Spotter alert brought Fort Lauderdale police officers to the 1300 block of Northwest 13th Court a little after 4 a.m., according to Detective Kerri Hagerty, a spokesperson for the police department.<\/p>\n<p>There, they found the car, and a man identified as Mike Menard, 32, with a gunshot wound. He was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Menard and two other family members own a home on Northwest 13th Court, Broward County property records show. He was licensed as an insurance agent and worked for various health insurance companies, according to state licensing records.<\/p>\n<p>Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators are actively investigating Menard\u2019s death, Hagerty said.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information should contact Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, so check back for updates.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/signups.medianewsgroup.com\/sfl_news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a>\u00a0to have breaking news alerts sent directly to your inbox.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Homicide detectives are investigating after a man was found dead with a bullet wound inside of his car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333236,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,28,249,251,250,114,115,109],"class_list":["post-333235","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-news","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333235","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=333235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}