{"id":351546,"date":"2026-07-24T20:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351546\/"},"modified":"2026-07-24T20:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T20:57:24","slug":"tampa-strip-club-security-guard-fatally-shoots-ejected-patron-during-fight-tpd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/351546\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa strip club security guard fatally shoots ejected patron during fight: TPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A man died early Friday morning at a Tampa strip club after he was removed from part of the establishment and shot while fighting a security guard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Tampa Police Department was called to Emperor&#8217;s Gentleman&#8217;s Club, located at 5718 East Adamo Drive, at 12:15 a.m. after shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:Tampa police find 2 dead during search for person of interest in gated community;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/hillsborough-county\/tampa-police-find-2-dead-during-search-for-person-of-interest-in-gated-community\/?ipid=promo-link-block1\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Tampa police find 2 dead during search for person of interest in gated community\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers arrived to find a man in his early 20s with upper body trauma who was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said he was ejected from one portion of the club and then pushed past employees to enter a restricted area. The security guard, described as a man in his early 60s, &#8220;engaged in a physical altercation&#8221; with him, according to TPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The man repeatedly struck the security guard, who then fatally shot him. No arrests have been reported in connection to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A man died early Friday morning at a Tampa strip club after he was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[45544,135,137,136,3793,567],"class_list":["post-351546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-security-guard","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-police-department","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351546","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=351546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}