{"id":212227,"date":"2026-03-30T21:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212227\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T21:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T21:52:10","slug":"suspect-sought-by-charlotte-county-sheriffs-office-after-shot-fired-incident-wgcu-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/212227\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect sought by Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office after shot fired incident | WGCU News"},"content":{"rendered":"

A male suspect is being sought in connection with a shot fired incident in Port Charlotte Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Sheriff’s Office reported a large law enforcement presence an an initial crime scene near Malone Avenue in Port Charlotte with a second area involved by Kenilworth Boulevard.<\/p>\n

The CCSO was searching for Matthew Ryan Cross, 32, and said he is considered armed and dangerous. If anyone has seen him, they should contact CCSO immediately.<\/p>\n

The Sheriff\u2019s Office is also asking people to avoid the area and residents are encouraged to remain indoors at this time.<\/p>\n

WGCU is your trusted source for news and information in Southwest Florida. We are a nonprofit public service, and your support is more critical than ever. Keep public media strong and\u00a0donate\u00a0<\/a>now. Thank you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A male suspect is being sought in connection with a shot fired incident in Port Charlotte Monday afternoon.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210],"class_list":["post-212227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212227","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=212227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}