{"id":70910,"date":"2025-12-04T12:08:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:08:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70910\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T12:08:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T12:08:18","slug":"bodycam-released-in-case-of-port-st-lucie-sergeant-shot-in-face-95-3-wdae","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/70910\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodycam Released In Case Of Port St. Lucie Sergeant Shot In Face | 95.3 WDAE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Port St. Lucie Police sergeant who was shot in the face twice during a call in the Tradition neighborhood will have to undergo another surgery.  <\/p>\n<p>Sergeant Erik LeVasseur remains at HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital, after a second surgery to repair his facial features, his jaw was wired shut and he needed a tracheotomy to keep his airway secure.  But the police department says he will have to be moved to another facility to have shrapnel removed from his retina.  <\/p>\n<p>LeVasseur and five other officers responded to a home in the Town Park community Monday night due to a neighbor dispute with a mental health component.  They found 32-year-old Frankie Riccio with an AK-47-style rifle and authorities say that when they ordered him to put it down, he opened fire.<\/p>\n<p>Officers fired back, killing the suspect.  The officers involved are on paid leave, which is standard protocol.  <\/p>\n<p>The police department has released the <a href=\"https:\/\/cbs12.com\/news\/local\/port-st-lucie-officer-shot-in-tradition-remains-in-critical-condition-south-florida-treasure-coast-news-ak-47-assault-rifle-police-chief-leo-niemczyk-town-park-community-11000-block-of-sw-lake-park-drive-december-2-2025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">bodycam video<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Port St. Lucie Police sergeant who was shot in the face twice during a call 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-70910","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\/70910","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=70910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70910\/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=70910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}