{"id":125337,"date":"2026-01-20T20:24:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:24:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125337\/"},"modified":"2026-01-20T20:24:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T20:24:07","slug":"suspect-arrested-in-tallahassee-after-deadly-shooting-in-valdosta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/125337\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested in Tallahassee after deadly shooting in Valdosta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A suspect who deputies say shot and killed a man in Lowndes County is behind bars.<\/p>\n<p>The Lowndes County Sheriff&#8217;s Office says they found the victim&#8217;s body on Friday on Skipper Bridge Road. They identified the victim as Walter &#8220;Bo&#8221; Pettiford in a post on Facebook Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The post says the sheriff&#8217;s office identified a suspect in the case. That person was arrested in Tallahassee with the help of TPD, the Leon County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, and the U.S. Marshal&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff&#8217;s office says the suspect&#8217;s name is Flay Rollins. They say Rollins is currently being held in Leon County, but he faces several charges in Lowndes County, including homicide.<\/p>\n<p>The office says the investigation is still active.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re urging anyone with information about this situation to contact the sheriff&#8217;s office at 229-671-2900.<\/p>\n<p>Want to see more local news? Visit the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wtxl.com\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WTXL ABC 27 Website.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Stay in touch with us anywhere, anytime.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/WTXLABC27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Like us on Facebook<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us on<a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/wtxlabc27\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Instagram\u00a0<\/a>and <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/abc27\" rel=\"nofollow\">X.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect who deputies say shot and killed a man in Lowndes County is behind bars. The Lowndes&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":125338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[61038,8597,1109,667,1289,39978,2631,215,232,234,233,3591],"class_list":{"0":"post-125337","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tallahassee","8":"tag-flay-rollins","9":"tag-friday","10":"tag-homicide","11":"tag-investigation","12":"tag-leon-county","13":"tag-lowndes-county","14":"tag-sheriff","15":"tag-shooting","16":"tag-tallahassee","17":"tag-tallahassee-headlines","18":"tag-tallahassee-news","19":"tag-valdosta"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125337\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}