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Mercedes Benz of Ft. Lauderdale

George H. Ticker P.A.

Runway 84

Ed Morse Bayview Cadillac

Adorno & Yoss, LLC

Las Olas Liquors

Red Baron Entertainment

News & Updates

Fort Lauderdale Street Renamed After Slain Officer

Officer Bryant Peney Was Killed In the Line of Duty In January 1996

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Part of a Fort Lauderdale street was dedicated Tuesday March 24, 2009 to fallen Fort Lauderdale police officer Bryant Peney. The street dedication ceremony took place place at 900 S.E. 15 Street, located at the intersection of S.E. 15 Street and S. Miami Road in front of Harbordale Elementary School.

Fort Lauderdale Mayor Jack Seiler attended the street dedication ceremony, which concluded with the unveiling of a new Bryant Peney Street sign at the northwest corner of S.E. 15 Street and S. Miami Road.

Officer Bryant Peney was shot in January 1996 while pursuing suspect Jeffrey Weaver on foot across South Federal Highway. Peney died the next day. Officer Peney was 27 years old and a six-year veteran of the Department who was known for his dedication to the community and love of law enforcement.

Weaver, who was convicted of first-degree murder, was sentenced to death.

The City of Fort Lauderdale previously renamed Lauderdale Park at Bryant H. Peney Park and a memorial monument was dedicated at the park on June 24, 1997.

On June 20, 2001, the Bryant Peney Act was signed into law by then Florida Governor Jeb Bush. The law allows prosecution for murder in the first degree (Felony Murder) when a perpetrator unlawfully kills a law enforcement officer or another individual when they are committing, attempting to commit or escaping from the immediate scene of a felony while resisting an officer with violence.

Fort Lauderdale street to be named after slain police Officer Bryant Peney

By DIANA MOSKOVITZ dmoskovitz@MiamiHerald.com
A stretch of Southeast Fifteenth Street east of Federal Highway will be renamed in honor of fallen Fort Lauderdale police Officer Bryant Peney, who was killed in the line of duty more than 13 years ago.
The renaming will take place Tuesday thanks to the efforts of another Fort Lauderdale police officer, Sgt. Monica Ferrer, who knew Peney when she was a high-school student with the department's police-explorers program. Peney was one of the officers Ferrer would shadow.

On Jan. 5, 1996, Peney was shot by a drifter he had stopped in the 1400 block of South Federal Highway on a suspicious-person call. The drifter, Jeffrey Weaver, ran, then turned and fired a gun at Peney, striking him in the chest.

Ferrer said she got the idea when she drove by a stretch of Southwest Third Street in Pompano Beach named after fallen Broward sheriff's Sgt. Chris Reyka. She thought it would be nice to do the same for Peney, she said.

So Ferrer began the process, which took about a year, to obtain approval for the change from the area's neighborhood association, and then the OK of city leaders.

A sign with the new name will be unveiled at 11 a.m. at 900 SE 15th St.

2009 Annual Fund Raiser Raised $15,000.00

The Bryant Peney Scholarship Foundation Board of Directors would like to thank all who participated in the 2008 Bryant Peney Scholarship Texas Hold'em Charity Event.

The board would also like thank the volunteers and sponsors who made this successful benefit possible.

2010 Fund Raiser to be announced soon!

Proud to have Awarded over $143,500.00 in Scholarships

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