{"id":71425,"date":"2025-12-04T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71425\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T19:03:07","slug":"port-st-lucie-police-hold-news-conference-on-condition-of-sgt-eric-levasseur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/71425\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie police hold news conference on condition of Sgt. Eric LeVasseur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">WATCH THE POLICE NEWS CONFERENCE BELOW:<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The Port St. Lucie Police Department is holding a news conference on the condition of a police sergeant <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/port-st-lucie-police-officer-shot-transported-to-hospital\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">shot while on duty Monday night.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The agency said they will speak at 2 p.m. Thursday at police headquarters. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sgt. Erick Levasseur, a 27-year veteran of the agency, was shot twice in the face during a gunfight with an armed suspect in the 11000 block of Southwest Lake Park Drive.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police said Tuesday that LeVasseur had his jaw wired shut for recovery and received a tracheostomy to keep his airway secure following the surgery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Doctors said there was shrapnel in LeVasseur&#8217;s retina, which required a special team of expert surgeons, and him to be transferred to a specialized hospital. He was also placed in a medically induced coma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie\/port-st-lucie-sergeant-remains-critical-needs-specialized-surgery-for-retinal-shrapnel\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">On Tuesday,<\/a> WPTV reporter Michael Hoffman spoke to a longtime friend of LeVasseur, who called him an&#8221;all-around good guy.&#8221;  <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.gofundme.com\/f\/support-sgt-erik-levasseurs-road-to-recovery?attribution_id=sl:8db5bb0c-091a-4a3f-87e5-aeb368132b01&amp;lang=en_US&amp;ts=1764783033&amp;utm_campaign=fp_sharesheet&amp;utm_content=amp17_control&amp;utm_medium=customer&amp;utm_source=copy_link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">fundraising page<\/a> has been created to help with Levasseur&#8217;s road to recovery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The gunman, Frankie Salvatore Riccio, 32, was later killed by officers after Levasseur was shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 Scripps Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WATCH THE POLICE NEWS CONFERENCE BELOW: The Port St. Lucie Police Department is holding a news conference on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71426,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-71425","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\/71425","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=71425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}