{"id":338397,"date":"2026-07-13T13:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338397\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T13:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T13:49:12","slug":"2-hospitalized-after-shooting-at-clearwater-sports-bar-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/338397\/","title":{"rendered":"2 hospitalized after shooting at Clearwater sports bar: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">CLEARWATER, Fla. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/clearwater\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Clearwater<\/a> police are investigating a shooting that left two people hospitalized early Monday morning at a downtown sports bar.<\/p>\n<p> Clearwater sports bar shooting   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the Clearwater Police Department, the shooting happened shortly after midnight at 45 Sports Bar and Lounge, located at 1409 Cleveland St.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers responded to the scene and found two men had been shot, CPD said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Both men were taken to nearby hospitals for treatment. One man was transported to Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, while the other was taken to St. Joseph&#8217;s Hospital in Tampa, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police have not released any more details about the victims&#8217; conditions or what led up to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p> Police investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with information should contact CPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Clearwater Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/clearwater\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Clearwater<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARWATER, Fla. &#8211; Clearwater police are investigating a shooting that left two people hospitalized early Monday morning at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139859,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1339,47,115,1157,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-338397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-clearwater","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338397","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=338397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}