{"id":38832,"date":"2025-11-08T14:47:05","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:47:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/38832\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T14:47:05","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T14:47:05","slug":"florida-chicken-egg-bar-shooter-thought-he-was-being-conned-witness-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/38832\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida Chicken-Egg Bar Shooter Thought He Was Being Conned, Witness Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chicken-Egg Pub Shooter
\n We Didn’t Egg Him On …
\n He Thought He Was Being Conned!!!<\/p>\n

\n Published November 7, 2025 1:04 PM PST
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\n Updated November 7, 2025 11:06 PM PST\n <\/p>\n

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One of the men involved in the bizarre Florida pub shooting — where a farmer allegedly opened fire over an argument about how many eggs chickens can lay — says the gunman was super paranoid … and took an honest question the wrong way.<\/p>\n

Tyler McHargue joined us on “TMZ Live” Friday and explained how a harmless discussion about egg-laying hens turned into gunfire and multiple arrests early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n

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Tyler says he was out with friends celebrating a birthday when they met Peter Riera at Harpers Pub in Port St. Lucie, Florida. Riera is the man cops say opened fire outside the pub<\/a> following the argument.<\/p>\n

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The way Tyler tells it … Peter, AKA “Farmer P,” was asking them how he could make some extra money to support his family.<\/p>\n

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Farmer P apparently sells his chickens’ eggs at a farmer’s market, and Tyler says he asked how many eggs the chickens lay … trying to understand the circumstances in order to help Farmer P sell his eggs.<\/p>\n

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Sounds innocent enough — but Tyler says Farmer P took things the wrong way and accused Tyler and Tyler’s friends of trying to “con him.”<\/p>\n

Tyler says Farmer P pulled a gun on them and threatened to shoot … but backed off, and then opened fire from the opposite side of the parking lot … with one bullet whizzing by Tyler’s head.<\/p>\n

As we reported, cops showed up and arrested Farmer P and a couple of Tyler’s friends.<\/p>\n

Florida, man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chicken-Egg Pub Shooter We Didn’t Egg Him On … He Thought He Was Being Conned!!! Published November 7,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":38833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-38832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832","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=38832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}