{"id":62989,"date":"2025-11-27T21:59:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62989\/"},"modified":"2025-11-27T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T21:59:09","slug":"gunman-sought-after-2-hurt-in-fiery-fort-pierce-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/62989\/","title":{"rendered":"Gunman sought after 2 hurt in fiery Fort Pierce crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 Police in Fort Pierce are looking for a gunman after two people were hurt in a fiery crash overnight.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo\/?fbid=1292040976284908&amp;set=a.239588994863450\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook post by the Fort Pierce Police Department<\/a>, officers at about 2:30 a.m. responded to the 1600 block of U.S. Highway 1 after receiving reports of a crash. <\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived and found a vehicle that had struck a concrete power pole and was engulfed in flames. <\/p>\n<p>Police said the occupants were able to exit the vehicle before the fire spread.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said their initial findings indicated that while traveling southbound on U.S. Highway 1, an unknown vehicle began shooting at the victim&#8217;s car. <\/p>\n<p>The driver sustained a gunshot wound, veered off the road and struck the pole. This caused the vehicle to catch on fire.<\/p>\n<p>Both victims were taken to a local hospital with injuries described as not life-threatening. <\/p>\n<p>Police said they did not have any information on the gunman.  <\/p>\n<p>According to a Facebook post by police at 8:24 a.m. Thursday, U.S. Highway 1 from Avenue O to Avenue M, in both directions, will be closed for several hours while crews repair the power pole.<\/p>\n<p>Police are asking anyone who witnessed the incident to contact Fort Pierce Police Department at 772-467-6800 or Treasure Coast Crime Stoppers at 1-800-273-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT PIERCE, Fla. \u2014 Police in Fort Pierce are looking for a gunman after two people were hurt&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62990,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-62989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-port-st-lucie","9":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62989","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=62989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62989\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62990"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}