{"id":93218,"date":"2025-12-23T01:46:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:46:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93218\/"},"modified":"2025-12-23T01:46:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-23T01:46:19","slug":"port-st-lucie-double-homicide-suspect-pronounced-dead-police-confirm-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/93218\/","title":{"rendered":"Port St. Lucie double homicide suspect pronounced dead, police confirm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">Three people, including the suspect, are dead following a double shooting in Port St. Lucie Monday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Port St. Lucie police responded to the 2700 block of SE Tropical East Circle at around 3:15 p.m. after receiving reports of gunfire and that two men were shot in two different locations within the community. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police identified the suspect as Paul Maraio, 62, who had reportedly run to a third home and held a woman hostage inside. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Officers negotiated with Maraio for over two hours before releasing the hostage. The suspect remained inside the home by himself, armed and barricaded, and reported he had shot himself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Maraio was found in the home with a gunshot wound to the chest and was taken to the hospital. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Maraio was pronounced dead just before 2:30 a.m. Tuesday, police said in an update to the investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The two men were pronounced dead from gunshot wounds inside their separate homes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities believe that an ongoing neighbor dispute ultimately led to the altercation. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Stay with WPTV for updates.<\/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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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":"Three people, including the suspect, are dead following a double shooting in Port St. Lucie Monday afternoon. Port&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":93219,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[171,173,172],"class_list":{"0":"post-93218","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\/93218","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=93218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93218\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}