{"id":419861,"date":"2026-10-06T03:52:25","date_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419861\/"},"modified":"2026-10-06T03:52:25","modified_gmt":"2026-10-06T03:52:25","slug":"port-st-lucie-man-sentenced-to-37-1-2-years-in-stuart-vape-shop-shooting-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/419861\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie man sentenced to 37 1\/2 years in Stuart vape shop shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>STUART, Fla. (CBS12)  \u2014 A Port St. Lucie man convicted in connection with a<a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/19-year-old-suspect-nabbed-in-georgia-after-allegedly-firing-shots-in-stuart-vape-shop-port-st-lucie-georgia-florida-vape-shop-shooting-crime-february-10-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> shooting inside a Stuart vape shop <\/a>has been sentenced to decades in prison, police said Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Gibbs was sentenced to 37 1\/2 years in Florida state prison, followed by 10 years of probation, according to the Stuart Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>The sentence stems from the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/shooting-at-stuart-vape-shop-prompts-investigation-stuart-florida-vape-shop-smoke-shop-gunfire-gun-january-27-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Jan. 25, 2025, shooting<\/a> at Miller\u2019s Vapory, 1596 SE Federal Highway.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Gibbs, then 19, entered the business wearing a ski mask and carrying a handgun before firing at a store clerk. The clerk fired back, and no one was injured.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives identified Gibbs as the suspect following an extensive investigation, police said. Authorities arrested him in Douglasville, Georgia, with help from the U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/ag-reserve-meeting-draws-overflow-crowd-tense-atmosphere-in-delray-beach-palm-beach-county-dr-andrefladell-south-county-civic-center-islamic-center-boca-raton-interfaith-clergy-association-statement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Ag Reserve meeting draws overflow crowd, tense atmosphere in Delray Beach<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police previously said Gibbs had confronted the clerk in December 2024 after he was denied service because he was underage. Investigators said he threatened the clerk and stole more than $300 in vape products.<\/p>\n<p>Gibbs was initially accused of attempted robbery with a firearm, aggravated assault with a firearm and robbery without a firearm in connection with the earlier theft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STUART, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A Port St. Lucie man convicted in connection with a shooting inside a Stuart&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":419862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-419861","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\/419861","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=419861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/419861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/419862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=419861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=419861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=419861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}