{"id":333614,"date":"2026-07-08T21:47:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:47:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333614\/"},"modified":"2026-07-08T21:47:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T21:47:14","slug":"video-shows-mother-and-son-being-attacked-by-stranger-in-fort-lauderdale-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/333614\/","title":{"rendered":"Video shows mother and son being attacked by stranger in Fort Lauderdale \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New surveillance video captured the moment when a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/mother-and-her-son-hospitalized-after-being-attacked-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say\/3830275\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/mother-and-her-son-hospitalized-after-being-attacked-in-fort-lauderdale-police-say\/3830275\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">mother and her son were attacked <\/a>in Fort Lauderdale by a stranger who&#8217;s still wanted in the assault.<\/p>\n<p>According to Fort Lauderdale Police, on Tuesday, at around 7:30 a.m., the mother and her 12-year-old son were walking in the 1000 block of Northwest 5th Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video shows the suspect walking up to the two and then appears to hit them with a blunt object. <\/p>\n<p>The suspect then fled the area. He was seen wearing a red shirt and shorts.<\/p>\n<p>Police said that the 12-year-old had an abrasion to his face, and his mother had a laceration to the back of her head.<\/p>\n<p>They were taken to the hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and have since been released. <\/p>\n<p>NBC6 spoke to the mother, who had just moved into the neighborhood just last Friday.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tA mother recalls what she says was a random attack by a stranger in Fort Lauderdale. She and her son who has autism were injured in the incident.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want this guy to get caught,&#8221; Chrissy said. &#8216;You can\u2019t attack a child, especially a kid who\u2019s 12 years old and a woman, and get away with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chrissy didn&#8217;t reveal her last name, but said her son has autism, is non-verbal, and the man who attacked them was a stranger who suddenly took a swing at her son with a cane or a bat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter that, I\u2019m like, &#8216;What the hell?&#8217; and I pushed him away, and he tried to go back for him, and that\u2019s when I got hit on my side,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Chrissy said the attack was random.<\/p>\n<p>Police said the suspect remains on the loose and the investigation remains active. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the Fort Lauderdale Police Department or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New surveillance video captured the moment when a mother and her son were attacked in Fort Lauderdale by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333615,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[1009,249,251,250],"class_list":["post-333614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-caught-on-camera","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\/333614","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=333614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}