{"id":443984,"date":"2026-11-01T03:40:10","date_gmt":"2026-11-01T03:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443984\/"},"modified":"2026-11-01T03:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-11-01T03:40:10","slug":"one-hospitalized-following-shooting-near-downtown-punta-gorda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/443984\/","title":{"rendered":"One hospitalized following shooting near downtown Punta Gorda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers with the Punta Gorda Police Department are investigating a shooting that occurred in the area of Showalter Ave and Milus Street Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/news-team\/2a6b881f-dbc0-47db-b827-f17851f1cfae\" aria-label=\"Kendall Brandt profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/2a6b881f-dbc0-47db-b827-f17851f1cfae_1747452386.JPG\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Kendall Brandt\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>PUNTA GORDA, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Officers with the Punta Gorda Police Department are investigating a shooting that occurred in the area of Showalter Ave and Milus Street Saturday night. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">Officers said one individual was transported to the hospital. Their condition has not been released at this time. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">As of 11:02 p.m., the police department&#8217;s criminal investigations section is on scene and actively investigating the circumstances surrounding the incident, according to officers. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">There is no ongoing threat to the public, according to the department. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Gulf Coast News has a crew headed to the scene. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\"> This story is developing and will be updated. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers with the Punta Gorda Police Department are investigating a shooting that occurred in the area of Showalter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":443985,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[2954,209,211,210,2771,172999,2318,172996,503,5078,658,23326,2795,172997,1224,173000,2451,132,1599,14484,160271,725,215,172998],"class_list":["post-443984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-area","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-circumstance","tag-criminal-investigation-section","tag-downtown","tag-downtown-punta-gorda","tag-halloween","tag-hospital","tag-incident","tag-individual","tag-injuries","tag-milus-street-saturday-night","tag-officer","tag-ongoing-threat","tag-p-m","tag-police","tag-police-department","tag-punta-gorda","tag-punta-gorda-police-department","tag-scene","tag-shooting","tag-showalter-ave"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443984","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=443984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/443985"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}