{"id":44051,"date":"2024-04-11T11:37:29","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:37:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=44051"},"modified":"2024-04-11T11:37:34","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T15:37:34","slug":"man-shot-and-left-in-ditch-after-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/04\/11\/man-shot-and-left-in-ditch-after-altercation\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot and left in ditch after altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A man was found in a ditch suffering from a gunshot wound in Lakeland on Wednesday.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1280px) 100vw, 1280px\" src=\"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/lakeland-fatal-crash-2.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-44052\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The LPD said officers found the 25-year-old victim around 11:37 a.m. in a ditch near Providence Road.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Police said the man was driving with another occupant in his car when they got into an altercation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The vehicle stopped and the victim, the driver, ended up outside of the vehicle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">An unidentified person then drove away in the vehicle, striking a fence, before abandoning it a short distance away.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The victim was taken to Lakeland Regional Health where he is in stable condition, according to police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Authorities said the occupants knew each other and the investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man was found in a ditch suffering from a gunshot wound in Lakeland on Wednesday. The LPD said officers found the 25-year-old victim around 11:37 a.m. in a ditch&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44052,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","default_image_id":71799,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[8124],"class_list":["post-44051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-man-shot-and-left-in-ditch-after-altercation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44053,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44051\/revisions\/44053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}