{"id":139617,"date":"2026-02-01T12:46:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139617\/"},"modified":"2026-02-01T12:46:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-01T12:46:28","slug":"suspect-search-underway-after-senior-shot-inside-his-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/139617\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect search underway after senior shot inside his home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Leon County deputies are searching for two potential suspects after a 70-year-old was shot inside his home early Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office says the gunfire happened near the 3600 block of Ballard Road at around 3:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Deputies say two people fired shots toward &#8220;nearby residences.&#8221; Detectives do not believe the suspects were trying to shoot the victim. <\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office says the man was transported to the hospital. He is in &#8220;serious but stable condition.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The office says they&#8217;re still searching for the people they say fired the shots.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re asking anyone with home security, doorbell, dash cam footage, or information about what happened to reach out to them at 850-606-5800.<\/p>\n<p>You can also submit an anonymous tip through Crime Solvers.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leon County deputies are searching for two potential suspects after a 70-year-old was shot inside his home early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":32136,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[67467,66708,502,320,4211,667,5699,12320,215,285,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-139617","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-70-year-old","tag-ballard-road","tag-community","tag-home","tag-information","tag-investigation","tag-leon-county-sheriffs-office","tag-search","tag-shooting","tag-suspect","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139617","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=139617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}