{"id":94969,"date":"2025-12-24T16:57:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94969\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T16:57:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T16:57:07","slug":"tallahassee-police-investigating-christmas-eve-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/94969\/","title":{"rendered":"Tallahassee police investigating Christmas Eve shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man is in critical condition after being shot &#8220;multiple&#8221; times in the early morning of Christmas Eve, Tallahassee police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Shortly after 3 a.m. Dec. 24, officers in the area of West Tennessee Street and Ocala Road heard several gunshots, according to an incident report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Moments later, a call was received after an adult male drove himself to the Waffle House, located at 1939 W. Tennessee St.,&#8221; it added.\u00a0&#8220;The victim had sustained multiple gunshot wounds.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers gave first aid until he could be taken to Tallahassee Memorial. The shooting victim was not identified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Preliminary findings show he &#8220;had been shot in an apartment complex within the 2000 block of Continental Drive. This remains an open and active investigation,&#8221; police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The area has several apartment complexes that cater mostly to college students and is a few blocks from the Waffle House.<\/p>\n<p>How to help<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to call TPD at 850-891-4200.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">You can also remain anonymous by calling Crime Solvers at 850-574-TIPS.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jim Rosica can be reached at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/mailto:jrosica@tallahassee.com\" data-ylk=\"slk:jrosica@tallahassee.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">jrosica@tallahassee.com<\/a>. Follow him on Twitter\/X:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimrosicafl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:@;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">@<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jimrosicafl\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:JimRosicaFL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">JimRosicaFL<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Tallahassee Democrat: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tallahassee.com\/story\/news\/local\/2025\/12\/24\/victim-critical-after-gunfire-close-to-tennessee-street-police-say\/87906803007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Victim critical after gunfire close to Tennessee Street, police say;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Victim critical after gunfire close to Tennessee Street, police say<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is in critical condition after being shot &#8220;multiple&#8221; times in the early morning of Christmas Eve,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[40454,2680,232,234,233,5698,50643,31975],"class_list":["post-94969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-christmas-eve","tag-critical-condition","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news","tag-tallahassee-police","tag-waffle-house","tag-west-tennessee-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94969","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=94969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}