Man dies after being shot on Fort Lauderdale Beach

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FORT LAUDERDALE — A car crash into a Fort Lauderdale seawall early Tuesday morning led police to discover a man with a gunshot wound to the chest

Officers responded around 2:30 a.m. to the 1400 block of North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard after receiving a report of a shooting.

While en route, they were told a man believed to be involved had been seen walking, holding a black shirt.

Police later located a man matching that description and took him into custody.

At the crash site, officers found the driver suffering from a gunshot wound.

He was transported to the hospital by Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue, where he later died.

Authorities have not released the name of the victim or the possible shooter.

By MILENA MALAVER/Miami Herald

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John McCarthy

John F. McCarthy is a veteran journalist in the Caribbean, writing from the "Decision Space" where survival meets the surreal. His reporting steel was tempered by a lineage of legendary editors and broadcasters, including Ed Wynn Brant (The Bomb), Owen Eschenroder (Ann Arbor News), Lynelle Emanuel (BVI Beacon), and Charles Thanas (WSVI-TV). Alongside longtime colleague Kenneth C. "Casey" Clark, McCarthy has navigated the front lines of the territory’s history—from the 1997 volcanic "snow" to every major hurricane since Hugo. Known for leaning out of doorless helicopters to capture the "money shot," McCarthy now edits the V.I. Free Press, providing the essential link between the island's colonial past and its SpaceX future.