{"id":230213,"date":"2026-04-13T20:07:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230213\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T20:07:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:07:23","slug":"tampa-police-investigate-shooting-in-channel-district","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230213\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police investigate shooting in Channel District"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Tampa police were investigating a shooting Monday that critically wounded a man near a busy intersection in the Channel District.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting happened about 9:20 a.m. near the intersection of West Kennedy Boulevard and North Meridian Avenue, according to the Tampa Police Department. Investigators believe a man in his 50s shot another man, also in his 50s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooter was detained at the scene and officers recovered a gun. The man he shot was taken to a hospital and listed in critical condition, police said.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believe the two men know each other and that the shooting stemmed from an altercation between them that happened on Friday, according to police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not released either man\u2019s name.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police were diverting westbound traffic on Kenney Boulevard while the investigation was underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa police were investigating a shooting Monday that critically wounded a man near a busy intersection in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230214,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136,9822],"class_list":["post-230213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230213","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=230213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230213\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230214"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}