{"id":70259,"date":"2025-12-03T22:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70259\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T22:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T22:46:07","slug":"body-camera-footage-shows-moments-armed-suspect-ambushed-port-st-lucie-sergeant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70259\/","title":{"rendered":"Body camera footage shows moments armed suspect ambushed Port St. Lucie sergeant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM<\/p>\n<p>New body cam footage shows moments armed suspect ambushed Port St. Lucie sergeant <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla.  \u2014 The Port St. Lucie police sergeant who was shot in the face on Monday night remains in critical condition. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Doctors say Sergeant Erik Levasseur, a 27-year veteran with the Port St. Lucie Police Department, will need to be transferred to another hospital for a highly specialized surgery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Additionally, newly released body camera footage shows how six officers were ambushed on Monday night after they responded to what police described as a neighbor dispute involving mental health issues. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Within a minute of police arriving, they said a man armed with an assault rifle shot Levasseur.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">That man was subsequently shot and killed by officers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The injured sergeant is now in a medically induced coma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">He has undergone a second surgery to repair facial injuries, he has a wired jaw, and now relies on a tracheotomy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">No other officers were hurt in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\ud83c\udfe0 News From Your Neighborhood<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2025 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Caroline Coles\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/86e192d8-0a9f-49de-b4c1-.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Caroline Coles<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Caroline Coles  is an experienced journalist who brings energy, heart, and hustle to every story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0December 3, 2025 at 5:37 PM New body cam footage shows moments armed suspect ambushed Port St. Lucie&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70260,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-70259","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\/70259","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=70259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70259\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}