{"id":52652,"date":"2024-12-16T23:59:26","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T04:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/?p=52652"},"modified":"2024-12-17T00:07:10","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T05:07:10","slug":"polk-deputy-commits-suicide-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/2024\/12\/16\/polk-deputy-commits-suicide-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound\/","title":{"rendered":"Polk Deputy Commits Suicide from Self-Inflicted Gunshot Wound"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office is conducting an investigation related to the death of 32-year-old Gregory Maynard of Davenport. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Deputies responded to Maynard\u2019s residence in Davenport at approximately 10:08 p.m. Sunday, December 15, 2024. When they arrived, they found Maynard in his bedroom with a single gunshot wound to his head. Two others were at the home when the incident occurred, an adult woman and a child. Neither directly witnessed the shooting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this early stage of the investigation, evidence documented at the scene along with initial interviews of those at the home indicate that Maynard died of a single self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. The cause and manner of death will be determined by the Medical Examiner\u2019s Office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Deputy Gregory Maynard was a dual-certified deputy sheriff. He was hired as a detention deputy in 2015, and became a deputy sheriff in January 2017. He was most recently assigned to Central District patrol. He was not married and he had no dependents. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cDeputy Maynard\u2019s death is such a tragedy. Our thoughts, prayers, and support are with his family, friends, and coworkers. We are making sure Greg\u2019s coworkers have access to both peer and professional counseling. I encourage anyone who may have feelings of self-harm to reach out for help. Florida operates an outstanding Suicide Prevention Lifeline\u2014call or text 988 or reach out through chat by visiting 988lifeline.org\/chat.<\/em>\u201d — Grady Judd, Sheriff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Polk County Sheriff\u2019s Office is conducting an investigation related to the death of 32-year-old Gregory Maynard of Davenport.  Deputies responded to Maynard\u2019s residence in Davenport at approximately 10:08 p.m.… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"12","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","inline_featured_image":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"wpai_generated_summary":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":true,"token":"eyJpbWciOiJodHRwczpcL1wvaTAud3AuY29tXC9sYWtlbGFuZGdhemV0dGUuaW5mb1wvbmV3c1wvd3AtY29udGVudFwvdXBsb2Fkc1wvMjAyNFwvMTJcL1NjcmVlbnNob3QtNzItOC1wbmcud2VicD9maXQ9NTMzJTJDNDIyJnNzbD0xIiwidHh0IjoiUG9sayBEZXB1dHkgQ29tbWl0cyBTdWljaWRlIGZyb20gU2VsZi1JbmZsaWN0ZWQgR3Vuc2hvdCBXb3VuZCIsInRlbXBsYXRlIjoiaGlnaHdheSIsImJsb2dfaWQiOjE2MzA0MDY2MX0.U99fRVJp-vUjBAFZOhDzaaDJBeIwZMRdLmPWoErvhGoMQ"},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[10529],"class_list":["post-52652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-news","tag-polk-deputy-commits-suicide-from-self-inflicted-gunshot-wound"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52652","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=52652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52654,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52652\/revisions\/52654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lakelandgazette.info\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}