{"id":68953,"date":"2026-03-14T08:56:04","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/fatal-shooting-near-sawgrass-delays-opening-of-gates-at-players-championship\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T08:56:04","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T13:56:04","slug":"fatal-shooting-near-sawgrass-delays-opening-of-gates-at-players-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/fatal-shooting-near-sawgrass-delays-opening-of-gates-at-players-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal shooting near Sawgrass delays opening of gates at Players Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Police find suspect after incident near course<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Third round began on time despite delays<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Police have captured a man who they say killed two people on Friday night about a mile from TPC Sawgrass. The incident led the Players Championship to delay opening the gates to the public for the third round by a couple of hours.<\/p>\n<p>St Johns County sheriff, Rob Hardwick, said the suspect, whom he identified as Christian Barrios, shot two people multiple times about 10:30pm on Friday in the parking lot of Walgreens in a domestic violence situation. The store is located about a mile away from the course.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/14\/fatal-shooting-near-sawgrass-delays-players-championship-golf\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police find suspect after incident near course Third round began on time despite delays Police have captured a man who they say killed two people on Friday night about a mile from TPC Sawgrass. The incident led the Players Championship to delay opening the gates to the public for the third round by a couple &#8230; <a title=\"Fatal shooting near Sawgrass delays opening of gates at Players Championship\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/14\/fatal-shooting-near-sawgrass-delays-opening-of-gates-at-players-championship\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Fatal shooting near Sawgrass delays opening of gates at Players Championship\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68953\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}