{"id":69764,"date":"2025-12-03T16:23:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/69764\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T16:23:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T16:23:08","slug":"bodycam-video-shows-deadly-port-st-lucie-police-shootout-nbc-6-south-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/69764\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodycam video shows deadly Port St. Lucie Police shootout \u2013 NBC 6 South Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New body camera footage shows the moment police officers in Port St. Lucie exchanged gunfire with a man armed with an AK-47 in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/port-st-lucie-police-officer-involved-shooting\/3728101\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.nbcmiami.com\/news\/local\/port-st-lucie-police-officer-involved-shooting\/3728101\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">a shootout<\/a> that left the suspect dead and a sergeant critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>The shootout haappened Monday night after a group of six officers responded to a disturbance in a Port St. Lucie neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p>At some point, officers exchanged gunfire with the suspect, identified as 32-year-old Frankie Salvatore Riccio.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What are we doing, where&#8217;s he at, where&#8217;s he at?&#8221; an officer yells in the bodycam footage.<\/p>\n<p>A barrage of gunfire can be heard as officers take cover.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sarge, are you ok?&#8221; an officer asks as the gunfire stops.<\/p>\n<p>The footage shows the gunman down on the ground as an officer kicks away his weapon, an AK-47.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/120325-port-st-lucie-police-shootout-AK-47-body-camera-video.png\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"New body camera footage shows the moment police officers in Port St. Lucie exchanged gunfire with a man armed with an AK-47 in a shootout that left the suspect dead and a sergeant critically injured.\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tPort St. Lucie Police<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPort St. Lucie Police<\/p>\n<p>New body camera footage shows the moment police officers in Port St. Lucie exchanged gunfire with a man armed with an AK-47 in a shootout that left the suspect dead and a sergeant critically injured.<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Erik LeVasseur, a 27-year veteran of the department, was shot twice in the face.<\/p>\n<p>He was rushed to a local hospital and was in critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/120325-Erik-LeVasseur.jpg\" loading=\"lazy\"   alt=\"Sgt. Erik LeVasseur\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\tPort St. Lucie Police<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\tPort St. Lucie Police<\/p>\n<p>Sgt. Erik LeVasseur<\/p>\n<p>Riccio was killed at the scene. Officials said the initial call came from his mother, who said he&#8217;d been abusing marijuana and she thought he was armed with a hunting rifle.<\/p>\n<p>The Florida Department of Law Enforcement is investigating the incident, which is standard practice in police shootings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New body camera footage shows the moment police officers in Port St. Lucie exchanged gunfire with a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69765,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[1009,28,171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-69764","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-caught-on-camera","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-port-st-lucie","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","12":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69764","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=69764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69764\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}