{"id":365481,"date":"2026-08-07T17:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365481\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T17:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T17:58:11","slug":"man-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-stabbing-at-blue-martini-in-fort-lauderdale-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365481\/","title":{"rendered":"Man charged with attempted murder after stabbing at Blue Martini in Fort Lauderdale, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 7, 2026 at 1:08 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 7, 2026 at 1:31 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4TY7GN7325GSTNPI47MHEYWCJ4.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A 52-year-old man is accused of stabbing another man multiple times during an altercation that police say occurred inside a popular bar and lounge in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday night. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/07\/acusan-a-hombre-de-intento-de-asesinato-tras-apunalamiento-en-blue-martini-en-fort-lauderdale-segun-la-policia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/07\/acusan-a-hombre-de-intento-de-asesinato-tras-apunalamiento-en-blue-martini-en-fort-lauderdale-segun-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to the Fort Lauderdale Police Department, officers responded just before 10:40 p.m. to Blue Martini at 2432 E. Sunrise Blvd. after receiving multiple 911 calls reporting a stabbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When officers arrived, they found a man suffering from multiple stab wounds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Investigators said the victim was taken to Broward Health Medical Center with serious injuries and is expected to survive. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said the victim and Lawrence Constantine Edmonson had been involved in an altercation before the stabbing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said license plate reader cameras helped officers quickly locate the Edmonson\u2019s vehicle. They said a grappler device was used to safely stop the vehicle before taking him into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said Edmonson suffered minor injuries during the initial altercation with the victim.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As of Friday afternoon, he was being held without bond at the Broward County Main Jail. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other details about the stabbing were immediately released. <\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Ryan Mackey\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/8725e99c-e445-48a0-bd.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Ryan Mackey <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Ryan Mackey is a Digital Journalist at WPLG. He was born on Long Island, New York, and has lived in Sunrise, Florida, since 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 7, 2026 at 1:08 PM Updated:\u00a0August 7, 2026 at 1:31 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 A&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365482,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-365481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","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\/365481","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=365481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365481\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}