{"id":164280,"date":"2026-02-22T00:46:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164280\/"},"modified":"2026-02-22T00:46:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T00:46:07","slug":"12-year-old-boy-shot-and-wounded-in-fort-pierce-friday-night-police-investigating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/164280\/","title":{"rendered":"12-year-old boy shot and wounded in Fort Pierce Friday night, police investigating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">A 12-year-old boy was shot and wounded Friday night in Fort Pierce when unknown individuals fired a weapon toward a residence, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Fort Pierce Police Department responded to the 500 block of North 22nd Street shortly after 11:30 p.m. Friday regarding reports of a shooting. Upon arrival, officers located the 12-year-old male who had sustained a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The juvenile was airlifted to St. Mary&#8217;s Hospital for medical treatment and is currently in stable condition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Preliminary investigation indicates that unknown individuals fired a weapon toward a residence that was occupied by several people at the time, including the 12-year-old. The suspects fled the scene prior to police arrival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">At this time, there is no information available about a suspect description or motive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This case remains active and anyone with information is urged to contact the Fort Pierce Police Department or Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;This story was reported on-air by a journalist and has been converted to this platform with the assistance of AI. Our editorial team verifies all reporting on all platforms for fairness and accuracy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A 12-year-old boy was shot and wounded Friday night in Fort Pierce when unknown individuals fired a weapon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149478,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[5842,78425,171,173,172],"class_list":["post-164280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-caleb","tag-flynn","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164280","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=164280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/164280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=164280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=164280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}