Man shot in Fort Lauderdale, rides scooter to Walgreens for help
A man shot near East Sunrise Boulevard rode a scooter to Walgreens for help before officers took him to Broward Health Medical Center.
A man was shot shortly after 4 a.m. Friday in the 1700 block of East Sunrise Boulevard in Fort Lauderdale, then rode a scooter to a nearby Walgreens to get help. Fort Lauderdale police met him there and transported him to Broward Health Medical Center, where officers said his injuries were non-life-threatening.
Police have not named a suspect, said whether anyone was detained or explained what led to the shooting. Investigators were still working to piece together who fired the shot and how the encounter unfolded in the block east of downtown Fort Lauderdale.
The Walgreens where officers met the victim appears to have been the store at 1515 E Sunrise Blvd. in Fort Lauderdale, just a short distance from the reported shooting scene. Broward Health Medical Center, at 1600 South Andrews Avenue, is a 716-bed hospital with emergency care and Level I trauma services, the kind of facility that handles gunshot victims from across Broward County and South Florida.
The shooting adds to a week that already included another Fort Lauderdale gun-violence investigation, keeping early-morning safety in focus for people moving through the city before sunrise. Fort Lauderdale police maintain a crime-statistics portal online, and the city’s open-data portal says the department shares violent-crime data to help measure impact and guide public safety decisions.
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