{"id":342390,"date":"2026-07-16T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342390\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:26:09","slug":"2-hillsborough-deputies-injured-in-ruskin-shooting-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342390\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Hillsborough deputies injured in Ruskin shooting: Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>     Ruskin deputy shooting emergency response <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">RUSKIN, Fla. &#8211; Two Hillsborough County deputies were flown by helicopter to Tampa General Hospital after being shot Thursday on West Shell Point Road in Ruskin.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A suspect was also shot during the incident and taken to a hospital for treatment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister released a statement on Facebook saying, &#8220;Two of our deputies shot, pray for them!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Investigators said there is no threat to public safety.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/deputy-shot-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office <\/p>\n<p>  Hillsborough Sheriff investigation details <\/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=\"\">Officials have not released the identity or condition of the deputies or the suspect involved.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities have not yet shared what led up to the gunfire or whether any additional suspects are being sought.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, who shared details on social media, as well as Sheriff Chad Chronister.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ruskin deputy shooting emergency response What we know: RUSKIN, Fla. &#8211; Two Hillsborough County deputies were flown by&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-342390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342390","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=342390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}