{"id":341701,"date":"2026-07-16T03:52:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341701\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T03:52:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:52:12","slug":"fort-pierce-police-identify-fatal-shooting-victim-st-lucie-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/341701\/","title":{"rendered":"Fort Pierce police identify fatal shooting victim | St. Lucie County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE \u2013 Fort Pierce Police have identified the victim of a fatal shooting that occurred on July 5 in the 300 block of South 14th Street in Fort Pierce.<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence Harris Jr., 28, was shot multiple times by an unknown assailant at about 3:43 a.m., outside a home in the 300 block of South 14th Street in Fort Pierce, according to Fort Pierce Police reports.<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to the address to find a 28-year-old woman who sustained a non-life-threatening injury to her hand and a man with multiple gunshot wounds. Harris was taken to a local hospital where he died from his injuries on July 7, according to police reports.<\/p>\n<p>Preliminary investigations indicate that the victims were involved in an earlier altercation at a Waffle House restaurant in the 5800 block of Okeechobee Road before returning to their home.<\/p>\n<p>As they arrived home, a man believed to be involved in the previous altercation, approached and opened fire before fleeing the area. The man has not yet been located, according to Fort Pierce Police reports.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call Fort Pierce Police Department at 772-462-6800 or Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tcwatch.org\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.tcwatch.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE \u2013 Fort Pierce Police have identified the victim of a fatal shooting that occurred on July&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":340,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,563],"class_list":["post-341701","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","tag-st_lucie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341701","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=341701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}