{"id":117900,"date":"2026-01-14T15:41:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:41:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117900\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T15:41:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T15:41:27","slug":"2-people-killed-including-gunman-and-2-officers-injured-in-gainesville-shooting-authorities-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/117900\/","title":{"rendered":"2 people killed, including gunman, and 2 officers injured in Gainesville shooting, authorities say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two people are dead, including the suspected gunman, and two police officers were injured during a shooting in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/gainesville\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Gainesville<\/a> on Wednesday morning, according to the Alachua County Sheriff&#8217;s Office and CBS affiliate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/14\/at-least-1-police-officer-injured-in-shooting-in-gainesville-sheriffs-office-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">News4Jax<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AlachuaCountySheriff\/posts\/pfbid0BBKqTnPYXyuELy4VtNMCaEnF6MyW3N1VhWT7zMh4oiKpK93H8YjC8yHzHAfmePJbl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In a Facebook post<\/a>, the sheriff&#8217;s office said the officers sustained non-life-threatening injuries in the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>The incident was taking place in the 1300 block of E. University Avenue, and the road is expected to be closed for several hours as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.news4jax.com\/news\/local\/2026\/01\/14\/at-least-1-police-officer-injured-in-shooting-in-gainesville-sheriffs-office-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">report from News4Jax<\/a>, police pulled over a driver and they got out of the vehicle and opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>Other officers responded and killed the shooter, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>While the investigation was unfolding, police found a body inside a nearby business, and police said they believe it was connected to when the first shots rang out, according to the report.<\/p>\n<p>No other information was released.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two people are dead, including the suspected gunman, and two police officers were injured during a shooting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":83259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[265,28,2496,123,125,124,23130],"class_list":["post-117900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-crime","tag-florida","tag-gainesville","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news","tag-police-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117900","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/83259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}