{"id":351179,"date":"2026-07-24T15:29:14","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:29:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351179\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T15:29:14","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T15:29:14","slug":"tampa-gentlemans-club-shooting-man-killed-after-fight-with-security-guard-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351179\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa gentleman\u2019s club shooting: Man killed after fight with security guard, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/vlcsnap-2026-07-24-09h52m16s573.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-653d32e2=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A man in his early 20s was killed in a shooting overnight at a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa <\/a>gentleman\u2019s club after police say he got into a fight with a security guard.<\/p>\n<p>   Tampa deadly club shooting <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the Tampa Police Department, officers responded to Emperor\u2019s Gentleman\u2019s Club, located at 5718 E. Adamo Dr., shortly before 12:15 a.m. Friday after receiving reports of shots fired.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">When officers arrived, they found a man suffering from upper body injuries. He was pronounced dead at the scene, TPD said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to investigators, the man had been kicked out of one area of the club before later pushing past employees and entering a private section of the business.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said the man then encountered a security guard, a man in his early 60s, and the two began to fight. Investigators said the younger man repeatedly hit the security guard before the guard shot and killed him.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The security guard remained at the scene and is cooperating with investigators, according to police.<\/p>\n<p> Emperor&#8217;s Gentleman&#8217;s Club shooting 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=\"\">Police have not released the name of the man who died or the identity of the security guard.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Detectives are continuing to review surveillance footage, evidence and interview witnesses as part of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said additional information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A man in his early 20s was killed in a shooting overnight at a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-351179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","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\/351179","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=351179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}