A man was detained by officers early Tuesday morning after a shooting near Fort Lauderdale beach left one person dead, police said.
Fort Lauderdale officers were called about a shooting in the 1400 block of North Fort Lauderdale Beach Boulevard about 2:30 a.m., and officers who were on their way to the scene were told a man who might have been involved was walking in the area, holding a black T-shirt, Sgt. David Soika, a spokesperson for the department, said in a statement Tuesday afternoon.
Officers found a car that crashed into a seawall in the area when they arrived, Soika said. The driver had been shot in the chest.
As they tried to treat the driver, other officers found the suspected shooter and detained him, Soika said.
Fort Lauderdale Fire Rescue took the driver who was shot to the hospital, where he or she was pronounced dead.
The names of the suspected shooter who is in custody and the person who died have not been released.
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