{"id":68463,"date":"2025-12-02T20:21:09","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/68463\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T20:21:09","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T20:21:09","slug":"port-st-lucie-police-sergeant-shot-in-face-during-neighbor-dispute-call-95-3-wdae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/68463\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie Police Sergeant Shot In Face During Neighbor Dispute Call | 95.3 WDAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We now know the name of the suspect who shot a Port St. Lucie Police sergeant in the face.  <\/p>\n<p>Six officers, including 27-year veteran Eric LeVasseur, were responding to a neighbor dispute at a home in the Town Park community of the city&#8217;s Tradition area when they were met by 32-year-old Frankie Riccio and an AK-47-type rifle.  <\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Riccio disregarded several orders and opened fire on the officers.  LeVasseur was struck twice.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As a police chief, as a leader in law enforcement, it&#8217;s something that you&#8217;re always very aware of, afraid of, concerned for&#8230;and then it happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Police Chief Leo Niemczyk says the officers returned fire, killing Riccio.  <\/p>\n<p>Sergeant LeVasseur is in the ICU after surgery, listed in critical condition,  and doctors say his prognosis is good for recovery.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We now know the name of the suspect who shot a Port St. Lucie Police sergeant in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172,39878,2989,862,39880,39879],"class_list":["post-68463","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","tag-sports-radio-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-buccaneers-news","tag-tampa-bay-lightning","tag-tampa-bay-rays-radio","tag-wdae"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68463","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=68463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}