We now know the name of the suspect who shot a Port St. Lucie Police sergeant in the face. <\/p>\n
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’s Tradition area when they were met by 32-year-old Frankie Riccio and an AK-47-type rifle. <\/p>\n
Investigators say Riccio disregarded several orders and opened fire on the officers. LeVasseur was struck twice.<\/p>\n
“As a police chief, as a leader in law enforcement, it’s something that you’re always very aware of, afraid of, concerned for…and then it happens.”<\/p>\n
Police Chief Leo Niemczyk says the officers returned fire, killing Riccio. <\/p>\n
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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68427,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[23310,23309,23311,3111,23307,1846,139,140,171,173,172,23308,11502,567],"class_list":["post-69325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-port-st-lucie","tag-bhl","tag-bud-hedinger","tag-coast-to-coast","tag-gators","tag-glenn-beck","tag-hurricane","tag-orlando","tag-orlando-news","tag-port-st-lucie","tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","tag-port-st-lucie-news","tag-ramsey","tag-rush","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69325","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=69325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69325\/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=69325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}