{"id":278801,"date":"2026-05-20T23:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278801\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T23:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T23:52:11","slug":"fsu-police-officer-honored-for-actions-during-campus-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/278801\/","title":{"rendered":"FSU police officer honored for actions during campus attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; A Florida State University police officer received the first Moment of Valor award during a Florida Department of Law Enforcement ceremony Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officer Cody Poppell was honored for his actions during the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/news\/one-year-since-fatal-fsu-shooting\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wctv.tv\/news\/one-year-since-fatal-fsu-shooting\/\">campus shooting on April 17, 2025,<\/a> that left two people dead. The new distinction acknowledges extraordinary courage and decisive action in imminent danger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Poppell shot the man accused of killing two people without leaving his motorcycle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe are going to recognize true heroes that has enabled us to protect the free state of Florida and make this the safest state to raise a family,\u201d said James Uthmeier, Florida Attorney General.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Detective Eva Solis of the Clay County Sheriff\u2019s Office was honored as the Law Enforcement Officer of the Year.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV\/Gray Florida Capital Bureau) &#8211; A Florida State University police officer received the first Moment of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[6947,1442,118999,1320,3603,119002,40756,2161,119001,119000,215,232,234,233],"class_list":["post-278801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-award","tag-cody-butler","tag-cody-poppell","tag-florida-state","tag-fsu","tag-fsu-police","tag-fsu-shooting","tag-government","tag-law-enforcement-awards","tag-moment-of-valor","tag-shooting","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278801","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=278801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}