{"id":366154,"date":"2026-08-08T11:22:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366154\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T11:22:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T11:22:10","slug":"man-arrested-after-stabbing-another-man-in-blue-martini-in-fort-lauderdale-cops-say-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/366154\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after stabbing another man in Blue Martini in Fort Lauderdale, cops say \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man was arrested after he stabbed another man inside a popular Fort Lauderdale restaurant Thursday night, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Lauderdale Police said officers responded to Blue Martini at 2432 East Sunrise Boulevard shortly after 10:30 p.m. after receiving multiple calls from patrons about a stabbing in the restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>The victim, whose identity wasn&#8217;t released, was found with multiple stab wounds and was taken to a local hospital with serious injuries but what expected to survive, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Police determined the victim and suspect were involved in an altercation before the stabbing, and they were able to quickly find the suspect&#8217;s car with the help of license plate reader cameras, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Officers then used a grappler to stop the suspect&#8217;s vehicle and take him into custody.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect, 52-year-old Lawrence Edmonson, was booked into jail on an attempted murder charge, police said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man was arrested after he stabbed another man inside a popular Fort Lauderdale restaurant Thursday night, police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":366155,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-366154","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\/366154","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=366154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/366154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/366155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=366154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=366154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=366154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}