{"id":365608,"date":"2026-08-07T20:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365608\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T20:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T20:52:08","slug":"man-arrested-after-stabbing-at-blue-martini-in-fort-lauderdale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/365608\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after stabbing at Blue Martini in Fort Lauderdale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Hollywood man is facing an attempted murder charge after allegedly stabbing another man inside the Blue Martini in Fort Lauderdale on Thursday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Edmonson, 52, was held in the Broward Main Jail as of Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Multiple customers at the bar, located at <a href=\"https:\/\/maps.app.goo.gl\/kpCVQRTHa5iw3P7Q8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">2432 E Sunrise Blvd. <\/a>at the Galleria mall, called 911 shortly after 10:30 p.m., police department spokesperson Casey Liening said in an email Friday afternoon. Officers when they arrived found a man who had been stabbed multiple times.<\/p>\n<p>The man was taken to Broward Health Medical Center with serious injuries but was expected to recover, Liening said.<\/p>\n<p>Before the stabbing, Edmonson and the man had been in a fight, she said, which left Edmonson with minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Edmonson left the bar and license plate cameras found his car, which officers used a grappler net to stop, according to the police department.<\/p>\n<p>Court records with additional information were not available Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" lazyautosizes lazyload\" alt=\"Lawrence Edmonson, 52, of Hollywood, was arrested Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, after a stabbing inside Blue Martini in Fort Lauderdale, police said. (Broward Sheriff's Office\/Courtesy)\" width=\"709\" data- src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lawrence-edmonson.jpg\" data-attachment-id=\"13461397\" \/>Lawrence Edmonson, 52, of Hollywood, was arrested Thursday, Aug. 6, 2026, after a stabbing inside Blue Martini in Fort Lauderdale, police said. (Broward Sheriff&#8217;s Office\/Courtesy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Hollywood man is facing an attempted murder charge after allegedly stabbing another man inside the Blue Martini&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":365609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,112,28,249,251,250,114,115,109],"class_list":["post-365608","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-social"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365608","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=365608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/365609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=365608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=365608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=365608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}