PORT ST. LUCIE, Fla. — A man was flown to the hospital on Wednesday morning after a getting shot in a "targeted attack" in Tradition, Port St. Lucie police said.
The Port St. Lucie Police Department posted on Facebook that officers responded to a home in the 11000 block of Southwest Stockton Place, located in the gated Town Park at Tradition community, just before 7 a.m.
Police said a man was in his driveway when the shooter came up and shot him several times before taking off in a vehicle.
"I woke up to three gunshots in succession," resident Elliot Fishman said.
"I heard this 'pow pow,' I think it was two or three," added resident Kim Schou.
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Shooting at Tradition leaves some residents uneasy
Officers said the victim then ran to another location on Kingslake Circle in that same neighborhood, prompting a police response there.
"That's all you see coming into our neighborhood is cops, lots of cops," Schou said.
The victim, whose name and age have not been released, was flown to HCA Florida Lawnwood Hospital in Fort Pierce in serious condition. He was expected to be OK.
"This appears to be a targeted attack and there is no immediate threat to the surrounding community," the police department said on Facebook.
"You know, it's kind of a little upsetting, but when they say it's a targeted shooting and there's really nothing to worry about, you just have to take it like that," Fishman said.
This is the second shooting on Stockton Place that WPTV has reported on in two years. The first was in November 2021 when police said a woman was shot to death inside her home.
Port St. Lucie police said other than that, this is the first shooting they've responded to in Tradition in years.
"It's not common that we have shootings in Tradition," Sgt. Dominick Masetti said.
Tradition Preparatory High School, which is located about a mile and a half from the community, was briefly on lockdown Wednesday morning. However, a front office staff member said that, as of 8:15 a.m., the lockdown has been lifted and school is now operating as normal.
"It's alarming too because my son rides his bike to school on that street minutes before it happened," said one resident, who asked not to be identified.
Police said by 4:30 p.m. the suspect's vehicle was located in Broward County. Several suspects have been detained and are currently being interviewed by detectives.
"Our crime scene investigators are out there collecting evidence, and our detectives are canvassing the area," said Sgt. Masetti.
Masetti said despite rumors circulating on social media, the victim is not rapper Jackboy. The victim's family, who declined to comment to WPTV, invoked Marsy's Law, so the police department is not releasing his identity.
