{"id":403900,"date":"2026-09-18T20:18:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403900\/"},"modified":"2026-09-18T20:18:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-18T20:18:13","slug":"port-st-lucie-road-rage-fight-ends-in-shooting-2-men-arrested-police-say-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/403900\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie road rage fight ends in shooting, 2 men arrested, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Port St. Lucie road rage incident that escalated into a physical fight and shooting landed two men in handcuffs Thursday.<\/p>\n

According to the Port St. Lucie Police Department, the incident happened at about 6:30 p.m. near Southwest California Boulevard<\/a> and Southwest Brevity Terrace. Police said that before the shooting, one driver believed he was being followed after merging onto Southwest Crosstown Parkway. The vehicles had passed each other, and one driver believed the other had cut him off.<\/p>\n

Investigators determined there was no intentional following, police said. One of the drivers, identified as Tylon Kukielka, 57, was driving with his girlfriend to her home after leaving a local restaurant. The other driver, identified as Dean Plotts, 41, was traveling in the same direction.<\/p>\n

Police said the situation escalated into a physical fight near Southwest Brevity Terrace. During the fight, Kukielka allegedly fired his gun, striking Plotts twice in the left wrist and legs.<\/p>\n

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A St. Lucie County sheriff’s deputy traveling in the area witnessed the incident and detained Kukielka.<\/p>\n

Plotts was taken to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital<\/a> for treatment. Kukielka was also taken to a hospital for a medical evaluation.<\/p>\n

Investigators recovered surveillance video and shell casings during the investigation. Detectives later charged Kukielka with attempted homicide.<\/p>\n

Plotts was charged with burglary with assault or battery. Both men were taken into custody.<\/p>\n

The incident remains under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Port St. Lucie road rage incident that escalated into a physical…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403901,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-403900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403900","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=403900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403900\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}