{"id":394311,"date":"2026-09-09T02:16:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394311\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T02:16:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T02:16:09","slug":"stretch-of-highway-40-shut-down-in-dunnellon-over-deputy-involved-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/394311\/","title":{"rendered":"Stretch of Highway 40 shut down in Dunnellon over deputy-involved shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  style=\"object-fit:cover;max-width:1280px;max-height:720px;aspect-ratio:1.7777777777777777;width:100%\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/2V52DXAJTFFGFNJ2C5OXI25RRY.png\"\/>MCSO announced that a shooting involving Levy County deputies caused a closure along West Highway 40. (Marion County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">MARION COUNTY, Fla. \u2013 A stretch of West Highway 40 in Dunnellon has been closed after a deputy-involved shooting, according to the Marion County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">In <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1555970936574196&amp;set=a.220854653419171\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo?fbid=1555970936574196&amp;set=a.220854653419171\">a release<\/a> on Tuesday shortly after 9 p.m., the MCSO revealed that the 23,200 block of West Highway 40 had been shut down due to the shooting, which involved the Levy County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">\u201cThe area will remain closed while the Levy County Sheriff\u2019s Office and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement conduct their investigation,\u201d the release reads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Deputies are urging drivers to avoid the area and use an alternate route until further notice.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">No additional information has been provided at this time, including the background of the shooting or whether any injuries resulted from it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WKMG ClickOrlando &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorAnthony Talcott headshot<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  style=\"object-fit:cover;max-width:86px;max-height:86px;aspect-ratio:1;width:100%\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/f419bf27-87f9-491c-833f-62836dad10d2.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clickorlando.com\/team\/MD8EZ7SZ4M3DA2IC1LP1S3T9LX\/\" title=\"View Anthony Talcott&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthony Talcott<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Anthony, a graduate of the University of Florida, joined ClickOrlando.com in April 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MCSO announced that a shooting involving Levy County deputies caused a closure along West Highway 40. (Marion County&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394312,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[265,39950,28,30,29,36127,3833,215,729],"class_list":["post-394311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-crime","tag-dunnellon","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-levy-county","tag-marion-county","tag-shooting","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394311","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=394311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}