{"id":385251,"date":"2026-08-30T12:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385251\/"},"modified":"2026-08-30T12:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-30T12:18:11","slug":"broward-sheriffs-detectives-looking-for-hit-and-run-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/385251\/","title":{"rendered":"Broward sheriff\u2019s detectives looking for hit-and-run driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/1788092289_393_police.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"674\" title=\"The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking the public\u2019s help finding the driver of a car that struck and killed a man in Pompano Beach and then left the scene.\" alt=\"The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking the public\u2019s help finding the driver of a car that struck and killed a man in Pompano Beach and then left the scene.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>        The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking the public\u2019s help finding the driver of a car that struck and killed a man in Pompano Beach and then left the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Broward sheriff\u2019s detectives are looking for the driver of a car who struck and killed a man whose body was found in a grassy swale in Pompano Beach.<\/p>\n<p>But, this is not the typical hit-and-run.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives believe 44-year-old Lacurtis Knight, from Tamarac, was hit Sunday by the car somewhere else, and then moved by someone to where his body was discovered, according to the Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p>Knight\u2019s body was found in the grass in the 700 block of Southwest 10th Drive around 8 a.m. Sunday, according to BSO. A Crime Stoppers poster states that his injuries \u201cwere consistent with being struck by a vehicle at a different location from where he was found.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>A BSO spokesperson confirmed that meant detectives believe he was hit somewhere else, and then moved.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking anyone with information to call Broward Crime Stoppers at 954-493-8477.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/lacurtis-knigh_fitted.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" title=\"lacurtis-knigh_fitted.jpeg\" alt=\"The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office is looking for the person or people who stuck and killed Lacurtis Knight with a car Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, and then moved his body.\"\/>                                                                                    The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office is looking for the person or people who stuck and killed Lacurtis Knight with a car Sunday, Aug. 23, 2026, and then moved his body.                                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/profile.jpg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of David Goodhue\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.miamiherald.com\/profile\/218644250\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">David Goodhue<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Miami Herald<\/p>\n<p>            David Goodhue covers the Florida Keys and South Florida for FLKeysNews.com and the Miami Herald. Before joining the Herald, he covered Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Energy in Washington, D.C. He is a graduate of the University of Delaware.\u00a0\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Broward Sheriff\u2019s Office is asking the public\u2019s help finding the driver of a car that struck and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385252,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-385251","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\/385251","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=385251"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385251\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}