{"id":251791,"date":"2026-04-30T00:02:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251791\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T00:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T00:02:15","slug":"lcso-drive-by-shooting-call-in-northwest-tallahassee-closes-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/251791\/","title":{"rendered":"LCSO &#8216;drive-by shooting&#8217; call in northwest Tallahassee closes road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elena Barrera, Tallahassee Democrat<\/p>\n<p>Updated Wed, April 29, 2026 at 6:27 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1242\" height=\"806\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/348a8fec15fa1933c6e7b5fe7707b93a.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<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>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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.talgov.com\/gis\/tops\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The city&#039;s online crime map;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">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>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>Elena Barrera can be reached at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/mailto:ebarrera@tallahassee.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:ebarrera@tallahassee.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ebarrera@tallahassee.com<\/a>. Follow her on X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elenabarreraaa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@elenabarreraaa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">@elenabarreraaa<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/04\/29\/fred-george-road-closed-for-lcso-shots-fired-investigation-tallahassee-leon-sheriff\/89857692007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Fred George Road closed for LCSO &#039;shots fired&#039; investigation;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link rapid-noclick-resp\">Fred George Road closed for LCSO &#8216;shots fired&#8217; investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elena Barrera, Tallahassee Democrat Updated Wed, April 29, 2026 at 6:27 PM UTC The intersection of Fred George&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":251792,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[74281,27030,71129,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-251791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-drive-by-shooting","tag-javonni-hampton","tag-leon-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251791","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=251791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/251792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}