{"id":359251,"date":"2026-07-31T20:24:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:24:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359251\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T20:24:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T20:24:08","slug":"4-year-old-unintentionally-shot-himself-in-pompano-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/359251\/","title":{"rendered":"4-year-old unintentionally shot himself in Pompano Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 4-year-old boy remains in critical condition Friday, two days after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/07\/30\/boy-in-critical-condition-after-unintentional-shooting-in-pompano-beach-deputies-say\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">unintentional shooting<\/a> in Pompano Beach, the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office said.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after 10 p.m. Wednesday, the boy\u2019s mother called 911 and said her son had just shot himself, and the gun was inside their house, according to the call released Friday.<\/p>\n<p>While deputies and Pompano Beach Fire Rescue were on the way to the shooting scene in the 4000 block of Southwest 15th Street, first responders learned the boy\u2019s parents took him to a fire station nearby, BSO spokesperson Claudinne Caro said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s mother pleaded with the 911 operator for help to hurry as car horns honked in the background and a man yelled, \u201cGo! Go! Go!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As they arrived at a fire station on McNab Road, the phone line remained open and the woman could be heard talking to firefighters.<\/p>\n<p>The boy\u2019s mother asked someone if her son was OK and if he had a pulse, moments before sirens could be heard blaring. A man could be heard responding, \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d in the background of the 911 call.<\/p>\n<p>Fire rescue crews started treating the boy when they arrived, Caro said, and he was taken to a hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The Sheriff\u2019s Office has not released additional information about how the shooting happened. The Sheriff\u2019s Office was still investigating Friday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 4-year-old boy remains in critical condition Friday, two days after an unintentional shooting in Pompano Beach, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,28,249,251,250,114,115,8928,109],"class_list":["post-359251","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-pompano-beach","tag-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359251","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=359251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}