{"id":334330,"date":"2026-07-09T13:33:28","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334330\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T13:33:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T13:33:28","slug":"man-found-shot-to-death-in-car-in-fort-lauderdale-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/334330\/","title":{"rendered":"Man found shot to death in car in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Homicide detectives and crime scene investigators are actively investigating Menard&#8217;s death, Hagerty said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information should contact Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477).<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story, so check back for updates. <a data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/signups.medianewsgroup.com\/sfl_news\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to 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":334331,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[35706,249,251,250,34233,73691,1599],"class_list":["post-334330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-bullet-wound","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-homicide-detectives","tag-kerri-hagerty","tag-police-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334330","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=334330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334330\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}