{"id":369854,"date":"2026-08-13T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369854\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T00:02:11","slug":"mother-of-man-stabbed-at-blue-martini-in-fort-lauderdale-says-80-of-sons-brain-is-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/369854\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of man stabbed at Blue Martini in Fort Lauderdale says 80% of son\u2019s brain is dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 Margarita Wray said her 49-year-old son was on life support on Wednesday. An attacker stabbed him nine times about six days ago at Blue Martini in Fort Lauderdale, relatives said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">As the father of an 8-year-old boy remained hospitalized on Wednesday at the Broward Health Medical Center, Wray said 80% of his brain was dead. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cMay have to make a decision to pull the plug,\u201d Wray said through tears.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Surveillance video shows Lawrence Edmonson walking to his parked car to retrieve a knife on Aug. 6 before he allegedly stabbed the man at the popular bar at 2432 East Sunrise Boulevard, according to police officers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI want see Justice for my son,\u201d Wray. said. \u201cHe don\u2019t bother nobody. He would take the last out of his pocket and give to you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edmonson, 52, fled, but officers used a tag reader to track him and a grappler device to stop him, according to police. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Wray had questions for Edmonson: \u201cWhy? Why did you do that? He is my baby, my son, he was the one who was taking care of me. I don\u2019t have that no more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Edmonson faced a charge of premeditated attempted murder and was at the Broward County Main Jail in Fort Lauderdale without bond, according to court and inmate records. Edmonson\u2019s sister told a bond court judge that he is a father of four. <\/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=\"Roy Ramos\" 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\/a327c0b5-d59c-45a5-a2.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Roy Ramos<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Roy Ramos joined the Local 10 News team in 2018. Roy is a South Florida native who grew up in Florida City. He attended Christopher Columbus High School,\u00a0Homestead Senior High\u00a0School and graduated from St. Thomas University.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" 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\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0August 12, 2026 at 6:22 PM Updated:\u00a0August 12, 2026 at 6:31 PM FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. \u2014 Margarita Wray&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":369855,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-369854","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\/369854","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=369854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/369854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/369855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=369854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=369854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=369854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}