{"id":392503,"date":"2026-09-07T01:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392503\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T01:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T01:06:11","slug":"fort-lauderdale-cops-were-breaking-up-a-fight-when-gunshot-sent-man-to-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/392503\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Lauderdale cops were breaking up a fight when gunshot sent man to the hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers are investigating Sunday after a man was shot overnight in Fort Lauderdale, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police were in the area of Southwest 3rd Avenue and Southwest 2nd Street breaking up a fight when they heard a gunshot around 3:45 a.m., Fort Lauderdale Police Department spokesperson Kerri Hagerty said. Officers detained multiple people and found a gun; but they didn&#8217;t find anyone who had been hit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;A short time later, an adult male arrived at Plantation General Hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound,&#8221; Hagerty said. &#8220;The victim has declined to cooperate with police.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The investigation is ongoing, he said, and no additional information was immediately available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers are investigating Sunday after a man was shot overnight in Fort Lauderdale, police said. Police were in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392504,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250,59391,8586,73691,156711,156710,156709],"class_list":["post-392503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-fort-lauderdale-police-department","tag-hagerty","tag-kerri-hagerty","tag-plantation-general-hospital","tag-southwest-2nd-street","tag-southwest-3rd-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392503","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=392503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392503\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}