{"id":346800,"date":"2026-07-21T02:11:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346800\/"},"modified":"2026-07-21T02:11:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T02:11:07","slug":"double-fatal-shooting-in-port-st-lucie-stemmed-from-jealousy-over-woman-police-say-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346800\/","title":{"rendered":"Double fatal shooting in Port St. Lucie stemmed from jealousy over woman, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police in Port St. Lucie said they believe jealousy over a woman prompted an exchange of <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/local-news\/our-community\/port-st-lucie\/2-men-killed-in-early-morning-shooting-in-port-st-lucie-neighborhood-police-say\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">gunfire that claimed two lives over the weekend.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The double fatal shooting, which involved multiple firearms, occurred at about 3:30 a.m. Sunday in the 1300 block of Southeast Rivergreen Circle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH BELOW: Dispute over woman prompted shooting that claimed 2 lives, police say<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">When officers arrived, they found two men with multiple gunshot wounds in the driveways of a residence. Both victims, identified as Carl Loubeau, 24, and Juliun Stokes, 22, both from Fort Pierce, were taken to separate local hospitals, where they later died from their injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said a verbal altercation occurred outside the residence over a key to a home and escalated into an exchange of gunfire between two of the individuals involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Chief Leo Niemczyk said a woman contacted Loubeau, whom she was dating, for a key because she was locked out of her home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;When Carl arrives, he finds her present with other people, including two males,&#8221; Niemczyk said. &#8220;The motive behind the initial attack was jealousy over the female.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH BELOW: Double fatal shooting stemmed from jealousy over woman<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said Loubeau was the primary aggressor in the dispute, with Dwayne Walker, 20, discharging his firearm in self-defense.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;Carl approached Juliun, opened fire on him; apparently, we think he mistook Juliun for Dwayne, starting firing on him,&#8221; Niemczyk said. &#8220;Dwayne was in close proximity and withdrew his firearm, which is lawfully carried, and started firing on Carl.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said Walker was not injured in the incident.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Niemczyk said their current investigation shows that Loubeau fired eight rounds from a 9 mm pistol and one round from a .380 pistol, with Walker firing eight rounds from his .40 caliber pistol.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;It&#8217;s just a horrible choice for a solution to a problem,&#8221; Niemczyk said. &#8220;Do you want to take the chance of being killed, killing someone, and going to prison for the rest of your life or worse over a lost relationship? It makes no sense.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">No arrests have been made in the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information who has not yet spoken with detectives is asked to contact the Port St. Lucie Police Department. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police in Port St. Lucie said they believe jealousy over a woman prompted an exchange of gunfire that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346620,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-346800","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346800","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=346800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}