{"id":344804,"date":"2026-07-18T23:06:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:06:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344804\/"},"modified":"2026-07-18T23:06:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-18T23:06:11","slug":"both-wounded-deputies-in-ruskin-ambush-released-from-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/344804\/","title":{"rendered":"Both wounded deputies in Ruskin ambush released from hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Tampa, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said both deputies wounded in a July 16 shootout have been released from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputy Sopharmony Muon, 33, was released Saturday and will continue recovering at home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said Muon and Deputy Colton Daniels, 39, were shot when they were ambushed while trying to take Christopher Dmuchowski, 34, into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Muon was shot in the face and hand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Daniels was shot in the neck and was released from the hospital on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cSeeing Deputy Muon walk out of that hospital today is a moment we will not soon forget. His strength and positive attitude through this have been remarkable, and we are beyond thankful for the outcome,\u201d said Sheriff Chad Chronister. \u201cWe can\u2019t say thank you enough to TGH and to this community, whose support has carried him and his family through every step of this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Deputies said Dmuchowski was also shot in the incident and was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Previous Coverage: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/07\/16\/2-hillsborough-county-deputies-shot-medevaced-tampa-general-hospital\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2026\/07\/16\/2-hillsborough-county-deputies-shot-medevaced-tampa-general-hospital\/\">Update: One of two wounded deputies in Ruskin ambush released from hospital<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; The Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said both deputies wounded in a July 16 shootout&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":344805,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[749,5526,5531,5529,5528,5530,5532,202,204,203,199,201,200,5527],"class_list":["post-344804","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344804","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=344804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/344804\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/344805"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=344804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=344804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}