{"id":158670,"date":"2026-02-17T18:20:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158670\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T18:20:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T18:20:07","slug":"man-sentenced-to-2-life-sentences-for-shooting-tow-truck-driver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/158670\/","title":{"rendered":"Man sentenced to 2 life sentences for shooting tow truck driver"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Port St. Lucie man who <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/man-shot-while-trying-to-repossess-car-in-port-st-lucie-police-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shot a tow truck driver two years ago<\/a> was sentenced Tuesday to two life sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Omar Sueque, 61, was in a St. Lucie County courtroom to face the sentencing after he was convicted on Dec. 3, 2025, of attempted first-degree murder with a firearm, along with a second charge of burglary.<\/p>\n<p>Repo driver called 911 himself after getting shot six times<\/p>\n<p>Sueque&#8217;s attorney called the sentencing &#8220;disappointing&#8221; and said there would be a &#8220;vigorous appeal&#8221; to the case. <\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred in January 2024 at a home on the 2000 block of Southwest Villanova Road in Port St. Lucie.<\/p>\n<p>Surveillance video showed Sueque shooting at the tow truck driver, Triston Hastings, 28, of Stuart, who was attempting to repossess a vehicle, prompting the confrontation.<\/p>\n<p>Hastings <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/repo-driver-called-911-himself-after-getting-shot-6-times\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">survived the shooting<\/a>, calling 911 himself after getting shot six times.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 A Port St. Lucie man who shot a tow truck driver two years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[76010,171,173,172,1402,76011],"class_list":{"0":"post-158670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-omar-sueque","9":"tag-port-st-lucie","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-news","12":"tag-st-lucie-county","13":"tag-triston-hastings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158670","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=158670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}