{"id":336272,"date":"2026-07-10T22:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336272\/"},"modified":"2026-07-10T22:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T22:15:10","slug":"police-search-for-suspect-in-4th-of-july-shooting-near-fort-lauderdale-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/336272\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for suspect in 4th of July shooting near Fort Lauderdale Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Lauderdale police are searching for a suspect in a Fourth of July shooting that injured a man near Fort Lauderdale Beach. <\/p>\n<p>Police say that the man was shot in the thigh at approximately 11:30 p.m. in the area of Seabreeze and Las Olas Boulevards. <\/p>\n<p>According to authorities, the victim did not know where the bullet came from, nor do they believe that he was the intended target. <\/p>\n<p>The victim was transported to Broward Health Medical Center with non-life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p>Police released the image below, describing the suspect as a black man between 16 and 21 years old with a short afro. <\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/screenshot-2026-07-10-at-5-04-34-pm.png#.png\" alt=\"screenshot-2026-07-10-at-5-04-34-pm.png \" height=\"567\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  Police released this image of a possible suspect in an aggravated battery incident in Fort Lauderdale where a man was hit by a stray bullet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                Fort Lauderdale Police<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking the public to contact either the Violent Crimes Unit detective at 954-828-6617 or Broward County Crime Stoppers at 954-493-TIPS (8477) if they have any information that could lead to an arrest. Crime Stoppers is offering up to $5,000 for this case.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"content__tags__label\">In:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale police are searching for a suspect in a Fourth of July shooting that injured a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":336273,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[73534,506,249,251,250,8999,215,807],"class_list":["post-336272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-4th-of-july","tag-broward-county","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-fort-lauderdale-police","tag-shooting","tag-south-florida"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336272","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=336272"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336272\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/336273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}