{"id":251396,"date":"2026-04-29T19:04:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251396\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T19:04:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T19:04:12","slug":"fred-george-road-closed-for-lcso-shots-fired-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251396\/","title":{"rendered":"Fred George Road closed for LCSO &#8216;shots fired&#8217; investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated April 29, 2026, 2:27 p.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The intersection of Fred George Road and Connector Drive is closed as the Leon County Sheriff&#8217;s Office conducts an investigation after receiving a call about a &#8220;drive-by shooting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">LCSO spokesperson Javonni Hampton said deputies responded to reports of &#8220;shots fired&#8221; in the area, and &#8220;at this time there are no injuries and it remains an active investigation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talgov.com\/gis\/tops\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">The city&#8217;s online crime map<\/a> that tracks police calls added more detail and recorded the incident as a &#8220;drive-by shooting.&#8221; The call came in at about 11:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">No suspects have been apprehended, and there&#8217;s no threat to the public because &#8220;it&#8217;s a contained situation,&#8221; Hampton said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Elena Barrera can be reached at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ebarrera@tallahassee.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">ebarrera@tallahassee.com<\/a>. Follow her on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elenabarreraaa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">@elenabarreraaa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated April 29, 2026, 2:27 p.m. ET The intersection of Fred George Road and Connector Drive is closed&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251397,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[64,47,484,485,781,1744,308,307,46,53,232,234,233,34],"class_list":["post-251396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-accessmetered","tag-fl","tag-sstsnewslocal","tag-sstsnlocal","tag-tagcrime-justice","tag-taglaw-enforcement","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagoverall-negative","tag-tagtallahassee","tag-tagviolence-abuse","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251396","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=251396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251396\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}