{"id":348949,"date":"2026-07-22T19:50:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348949\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T19:50:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T19:50:08","slug":"wanted-shooting-suspect-barricaded-in-vehicle-on-i-75-in-lee-county-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/348949\/","title":{"rendered":"Wanted shooting suspect barricaded in vehicle on I-75 in Lee County | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"

LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> and Florida Highway Patrol<\/a> are on scene, where they are investigating a wanted shooting suspect who barricaded themselves within their vehicle on Interstate 75 southbound.<\/p>\n

At around 2:40 p.m. on Wednesday, law enforcement blocked all north and southbound lanes near Mile Marker 126 while they were attempting to de-escalate the scene.<\/p>\n

The Florida Highway Patrol is on location and is the lead investigator regarding this matter.<\/p>\n

It remains unclear how long both I-75 lanes will be closed.\u00a0<\/p>\n

WINK News contacted FHP regarding this incident, where they confirmed chasing after a solo vehicle from St. Petersburg, wanted for a homicide that occurred in the area.<\/p>\n

Our team contacted the St. Petersburg Police Department regarding this shooting. According to the police department, the victim is a 12-year City of St. Petersburg employee who was a sanitation technician. She was shot while sitting inside her front-end loader work vehicle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The victim and the suspect were known to each other. The public is not in danger; the incident was not a random act.<\/p>\n

Police have identified the suspect; however, they have not disclosed their identity.<\/p>\n

Troopers attempted to stop the vehicle, and the suspect barricaded themselves within the car. Efforts are being made to negotiate a peaceful surrender; however, troopers believed gunshots were fired.<\/p>\n

Reporter Hunter Walterman is on scene gathering information and providing updates.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Stay tuned to WINKNews.com<\/a>, WINK News App, streaming, and on air for any new developments on this story.<\/p>\n

Nicholas Karsen is a Digital Specialist and has been with WINK News\u00a0since May 2023.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LEE COUNTY, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 The Lee County Sheriff\u2019s Office and Florida Highway Patrol are on scene, where…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":348950,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,325,115],"class_list":["post-348949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-lee","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348949","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=348949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/348949\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/348950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=348949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=348949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=348949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}