PORT ORANGE, Fla. \u2014 A shooting in Volusia County sent a police officer and a suspect to the hospital on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The injured officer has been identified as Jake Fessenden of the South Daytona Police Department.<\/p>\n
What You Need To Know<\/p>\n
Officials say South Daytona officer, Jake Fessenden, was shot during a pursuit
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Officials say the suspect, Todd Martin, was critically injured with gunshot wounds and burns
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An initial shooting was reported near Country Lane but caused no injuries<\/p>\n
It happened right along I-95, near I-4 and Beville Road.<\/p>\n
According to Port Orange police, this all began with officers responding to a separate reported shooting near Country Lane.<\/p>\n
They say no one was injured in that shooting.<\/p>\n
Officers say the suspect, identified as 31-year-old Todd Martin, got into a vehicle and drove away.<\/p>\n
Police say they pursued Martin onto I-95, where he was involved in a crash.<\/p>\n
Police say Martin then got out of the car and fired at officers, hitting Fessenden. Officers then returned fire.<\/p>\n
Fessenden was shot twice and has been taken to a hospital where he will need surgery.<\/p>\n
Police say Martin suffered not only gunshot wounds but also severe burns after barricading himself inside a patrol vehicle that caught fire.<\/p>\n
They say Martin is hospitalized and in critical condition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ORANGE, Fla. \u2014 A shooting in Volusia County sent a police officer and a suspect to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":193390,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2967,4995,1015,28,30,29,115,139,277,275,6390,835,2261],"class_list":["post-193389","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-app-public-safety","tag-crime-safety","tag-emma-delamo","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-topic-latest-public-safety-crime-stories","tag-vod","tag-volusia-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193389","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=193389"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193389\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193389"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193389"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193389"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}