{"id":230406,"date":"2026-04-13T22:59:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230406\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T22:59:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T22:59:32","slug":"man-critically-injured-suspect-detained-in-downtown-tampa-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/230406\/","title":{"rendered":"Man critically injured, suspect detained in downtown Tampa shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa police say two men known to each other got into an argument that led to a shooting Monday morning, leaving one of them in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Tampa police are investigating a shooting that sent one man to the hospital in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>Officers said this happened before 9:30 a.m. Monday in the area of Kennedy Blvd. and North Meridian Ave., where a man in his mid-50s was found with a gunshot wound. He was taken to the hospital, where he is in critical condition, but is stable.<\/p>\n<p>TPD says the shooter, another man in his 50s, was detained and a gun was taken into evidence. All parties are accounted for and there are no other suspects.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe this was not a random act of violence and both men are known to each other. They also say this shooting stems from an incident between the two that happened on Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Westbound traffic along Kennedy Blvd. is currently being diverted to allow for the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Drivers should seek alternate routes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa police say two men known to each other got into an argument that led to a shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":230407,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-230406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230406","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=230406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}