{"id":342463,"date":"2026-07-16T18:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342463\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T18:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T18:36:13","slug":"2-florida-deputies-airlifted-after-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/342463\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Florida deputies airlifted after shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Two deputies were airlifted to a Florida hospital Thursday after they were shot in an incident, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police are on the scene of the shooting, which took place on West Shell Point Road in Ruskin, Florida, south of Tampa, the sheriff&#8217;s office reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The two deputies were medevaced to Tampa General Hospital after being shot, according to the sheriff&#8217;s office.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office - PHOTO:  A helicopter airlifts two deputies to the hospital after they were shot on July 16, 2026 in Ruskin, Fla.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"540\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/us.abcnews.go.com\/6229b10aa20029e36c2abc88eb8f631e.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office &#8211; PHOTO:  A helicopter airlifts two deputies to the hospital after they were shot on July 16, 2026 in Ruskin, Fla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The suspect was also shot and is being transported to the hospital, the sheriff&#8217;s office said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sheriff&#8217;s office said there is no threat to public safety at this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two deputies were airlifted to a Florida hospital Thursday after they were shot in an incident, according to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":342464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1071,28,30,29,71204,9113,3871],"class_list":["post-342463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-deputies","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-ruskin","tag-tampa-general-hospital"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342463","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=342463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/342463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=342463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=342463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=342463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}