{"id":400053,"date":"2026-09-15T02:50:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:50:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400053\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T02:50:46","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T02:50:46","slug":"bso-man-threatens-to-kill-couple-eating-at-mcdonalds-in-oakland-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/400053\/","title":{"rendered":"BSO: Man threatens to kill couple eating at McDonald\u2019s in Oakland Park"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 9:57 PM<\/p>\n<p>Suspect told victim: \u2018You\u2019re going to die and I\u2019m going to shoot your boyfriend\u2019lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/DZVKQXZRRJDWHGE6BO34V4C7XQ.jpg\"  width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OAKLAND PARK, Fla.  \u2014 A 29-year-old Broward County man was arrested after allegedly threatening a couple inside a fast food restaurant. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The incident happened around 10 p.m. Saturday at the McDonald\u2019s located at 265 W. Oakland Park Blvd. in Oakland Park. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">According to deputies, the victim and her boyfriend were inside the McDonald\u2019s when she told investigators that the suspect, identified as Jerimiah Williams, continued to look at her because \u201cshe believed that he was trying to flirt or cause a rise\u201d out of the couple. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That\u2019s when the victim said Williams got up from the table he was seated at and tried signaling the victim to follow him as he walked toward the bathroom, and when she did not, deputies said Williams then went to the couple and brushed up against the victim before telling her, \u201cYou\u2019re going to die and I\u2019m going to shoot your boyfriend,\u201d according to an arrest report. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Deputies said Williams then walked outside the McDonald\u2019s and put down his backpack, which was described by authorities as a \u201cmilitary style digital camo backpack,\u201d reached inside and showed the victims what they believed to be a black pistol. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">When the victims called 911, deputies said Williams took off running down Oakland Park Boulevard, but they were able to bring him into custody a short distance away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">It was noted in his arrest repot that deputies did not find a gun after searching Williams. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He is now facing two charges of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and a charge of battery. As of Monday night, Williams was being held at the Broward Main Jail on a $5,500 bond. <\/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=\"David Dwork\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/3469fa6e-3c52-46d2-a0.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>David Dwork<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">David Dwork joined the WPLG Local 10 News team in August 2019. Born and raised in Miami-Dade County, David has covered South Florida sports since 2007. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0September 14, 2026 at 9:57 PM Suspect told victim: \u2018You\u2019re going to die and I\u2019m going to shoot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400054,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-400053","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\/400053","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=400053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400053\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}