FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 One man was shot Tuesday afternoon at a home in St. Lucie County, and the suspected gunman is in custody, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Deputies responded around 3:30 p.m. to a home in the 2700 block of Essex Drive after receiving reports of a person with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
When deputies arrived, they learned an adult man had allegedly shot another adult man with a rifle, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n
Deputies took the suspect into custody and began providing emergency medical care to the victim until St. Lucie County Fire District personnel arrived. The victim was then taken to a local hospital for treatment.<\/p>\n
Detectives with the sheriff’s office’s Criminal Investigations Division are processing the scene and interviewing witnesses.<\/p>\n
Authorities said residents should expect a significant law enforcement presence in the area while the investigation continues.<\/p>\n
Investigators believe the shooting was an isolated incident, and there is no threat to the public.<\/p>\n
The investigation remains ongoing, and additional information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 One man was shot Tuesday afternoon at a home in St. Lucie County, and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332339,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-332338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332338","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=332338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332338\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332339"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}