{"id":432468,"date":"2026-10-19T23:36:14","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432468\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T23:36:14","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T23:36:14","slug":"man-dies-by-suicide-after-barricaded-subject-swat-situation-in-fort-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/432468\/","title":{"rendered":"Man dies by suicide after barricaded-subject SWAT situation in Fort Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A man was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after deputies responded to a reported domestic violence incident Saturday morning in Fort Pierce’s Lakewood Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n

Deputies responded around 10:17 a.m. to a home in the 7600 block of Winter Garden Boulevard, where they encountered a man in the front yard. The man went back inside after seeing law enforcement, according to the St. Lucie County Sheriff’s Office<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A SWAT situation is unfolding as deputies respond to a reported domestic battery in Fort Pierce’s Lakewood Park neighborhood. (WPEC)<\/p>\n

Deputies say they later contacted a man and woman at the front door. A deputy saw what appeared to be a firearm in the man’s possession and ordered him to drop the weapon, but he shut the door and retreated inside, prompting a barricaded-subject situation with other occupants still in the home.<\/p>\n

See also: Driver tried to ram deputy before PIT maneuver ended chase, SLCSO says<\/a><\/p>\n

During the incident, the man reportedly came outside several times and indicated he would surrender after making a phone call, but repeatedly went back inside, deputies said.<\/p>\n

During his final retreat into the home, deputies say they heard what appeared to be a gunshot.<\/p>\n

Concerned for an adult woman and children who remained inside, deputies entered the home without alerting the occupants and evacuated them through a side window, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n

Deputies later found the man dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n

The sheriff’s office said there is no ongoing threat to the community.<\/p>\n

Detectives with the agency’s Criminal Investigations Division, crime scene technicians and investigators from the Medical Examiner’s Office remained at the scene to investigate the circumstances surrounding the incident.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is struggling with thoughts of suicide, help is available. Call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline<\/a>, available 24\/7. You can also chat at 988lifeline.org<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A man was found dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound after deputies…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":432469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":["post-432468","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\/432468","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=432468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/432469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}