A Fort Lauderdale Police officer shot a man Wednesday evening after the property manager of a marina and RV park called about the man causing a disturbance, the police department said.
The officer arrived in the 2300 block of State Road 84 just before 6:30 p.m. and found the man who the property manager said was causing a disturbance, department spokesperson Casey Liening said in an email late Wednesday. Yacht Haven Park & Marina is at that address.
Liening said the officer “at some point” shot the man after asking for other officers to come as back up. He was taken to Broward Health Medical Center in Fort Lauderdale.
Liening did not provide the man’s condition or name or identify the officer.
The officer will be on paid administrative leave as the Florida Department of Law Enforcement investigates, as is customary.
Wednesday’s shooting is at least the third so far in 2025 involving Fort Lauderdale officers. On Jan. 19, an officer shot and killed a man who got out of his car at a gas station “with what appeared to be a firearm” after fleeing from an earlier traffic stop, the department previously said. On Jan. 9, Fort Lauderdale officers shot and killed a man who was throwing “incendiary devices” after receiving a call about a fire.
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