{"id":201628,"date":"2026-03-22T19:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201628\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T19:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T19:02:15","slug":"man-shot-killed-near-i-4-and-plant-city-hcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/201628\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot, killed near I-4 and Plant City: HCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/i-4-plant-city-shooting-3.22.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">PLANT CITY, Fla. &#8211; Detectives are investigating after a man was shot and killed near Interstate 4 and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/plant-city\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Plant City<\/a> early Sunday morning, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Hillsborough County <\/a>Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">According to investigators, deputies responded around 4 a.m. to reports of a person being shot multiple times near the westbound I-4 entrance ramp at Branch Forbes Road.<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/tampa-playground-ybor-city-mass-shooting-victim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa all-abilities playground renamed to honor 2023 Ybor City mass shooting victim<\/a><\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">When deputies arrived, they found an adult man suffering from upper body trauma. He was pronounced dead at the scene, HCSO said.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">HCSO has not yet released the victim\u2019s identity, and what led to the shooting is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">&#8220;Our detectives are working diligently to determine exactly what led to this shooting,&#8221; Sheriff Chad Chronister said. &#8220;We are asking anyone who may have seen or heard anything in the area to come forward. Even the smallest detail could be critical in helping us bring answers to this case.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">The westbound on-ramp to I-4 from Branch Forbes Road was closed Sunday morning but has since reopened, according to HCSO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-f1afc186=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact HCSO at 813-247-8200.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/plant-city\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Plant City<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-f1afc186=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office PLANT CITY, Fla. &#8211; Detectives are investigating after a man was shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,10784,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-201628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-plant-city","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201628","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=201628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}