{"id":79992,"date":"2025-12-11T23:37:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79992\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T23:37:06","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T23:37:06","slug":"port-st-lucie-sergeant-continues-to-recover-after-surgeries-to-remove-bullet-fragments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/79992\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie sergeant continues to recover after surgeries to remove bullet fragments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Port St. Lucie police said a sergeant who was <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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">injured after being shot in the face while on duty<\/a> Dec. 1 continues to recover at the Trauma Intensive Care Unit at <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wptv.com\/news\/treasure-coast\/region-st-lucie-county\/port-st-lucie-sergeant-escorted-back-to-hca-florida-lawnwood-hospital-after-surgery\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital<\/a>, police said in an update Thursday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say that on Tuesday, Sgt. Erik Levasseur underwent another surgery to remove additional bullet fragments that were discovered during evaluation. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;The bullet shrapnel was lodged deeper than initially expected, but the procedure went well,&#8221; police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Levasseur currently has no vision due to significant eye trauma and is awaiting further consultation for facial reconstruction surgery. Despite potentially needing additional eye surgeries, medical staff confirmed that the sergeant has not sustained any brain damage. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8220;Despite these challenges, Sergeant Levasseur is fully aware of\u2014and deeply moved by\u2014the tremendous outpouring of support from his coworkers and community,&#8221; police said.  &#8220;The strength of this community continues to encourage him and his family every day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Port St Lucie<\/p>\n<p>Port St. Lucie sergeant shot in face expected to make &#8216;very strong recovery&#8217;<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Palm Beach County<\/p>\n<p>Police shooting simulator shows how fast situations turn deadly\u00a0<\/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":"Port St. Lucie police said a sergeant who was injured after being shot in the face while on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[16780,171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-79992","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-port-st-lucie","8":"tag-color","9":"tag-port-st-lucie","10":"tag-port-st-lucie-headlines","11":"tag-port-st-lucie-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79992","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=79992"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79992\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}