{"id":384607,"date":"2026-08-29T15:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384607\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T15:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T15:14:11","slug":"fort-lauderdale-shooting-leaves-teen-seriously-injured-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/384607\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale shooting leaves teen seriously injured, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0August 29, 2026 at 9:10 AM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0August 29, 2026 at 10:21 AM<\/p>\n<p>A 15-year-old girl was seriously injured in a shooting in Fort Lauderdale early Saturday, marking the second shooting reported in the city within hours, police said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.  \u2014 A 15-year-old girl was seriously injured in a shooting in Fort Lauderdale early Saturday, marking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/29\/police-respond-to-reports-of-shots-fired-in-fort-lauderdale-neighborhood\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/29\/police-respond-to-reports-of-shots-fired-in-fort-lauderdale-neighborhood\/\">second shooting reported<\/a> in the city within hours, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/29\/balacera-en-fort-lauderdale-deja-a-adolescente-gravemente-herido-informa-la-policia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/espanol\/2026\/08\/29\/balacera-en-fort-lauderdale-deja-a-adolescente-gravemente-herido-informa-la-policia\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Fort Lauderdale police said they responded at approximately 3:45 a.m. to a report of a shooting in the 1700 block of Northwest Ninth Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They said officers found the girl, who has not been identified at this time, and immediately began providing aid until Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue crews arrived at the scene. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">She was taken by trauma alert to Broward Health Medical Center with serious injuries, according to investigators. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police later confirmed that the victim is expected to survive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police said the shooting remain under investigation, and they are working to determine the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Earlier Saturday morning, Fort Lauderdale police also responded at approximately 1:51 a.m. to a ShotSpotter alert in the 1600 block of Northwest Eighth Avenue, where they said a man was shot dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Police have not connected the two shootings. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Anyone with information about both shootings is urged to call Fort Lauderdale police or Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477. <\/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 29, 2026 at 9:10 AM Updated:\u00a0August 29, 2026 at 10:21 AM A 15-year-old girl was seriously injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":384608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-384607","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\/384607","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=384607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/384608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=384607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=384607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=384607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}