{"id":130466,"date":"2026-01-24T16:34:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130466\/"},"modified":"2026-01-24T16:34:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-24T16:34:44","slug":"st-pete-fatal-shooting-was-self-defense-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/130466\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete fatal shooting was self-defense: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Petersburg shooting on Friday that left one man dead another man injured was done in self-defense, police officials said.<\/p>\n<p>The St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) identified the deceased man as 29-year-old Syltico Morand.<\/p>\n<p>According to a SPPD report, Morand and another man were armed and attempted to rob two men who were parked in a vehicle on 22nd Lane South at about 6:30 p.m.<br \/>The men in the vehicle were also armed.<\/p>\n<p>When a confrontation erupted, Morand, and the man with him, were shot.<br \/>Morand died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>The other man, age 30, was hospitalized with critical injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrived quickly and detained two men. Officers also found multiple firearms at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, evidence points to a self-defense shooting, however, the investigation is continuing.<\/p>\n<p>The men who were detained and interviewed were not charged on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KATIE.LAGRONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>AI-generated fake evidence is landing people in jail as courts struggle with new technology<\/p>\n<p>From fabricated texts in domestic violence cases to fake photos in assault claims, artificial intelligence is creating new challenges for judges and juries nationwide.<\/p>\n<p>AI-generated evidence is landing people in jail<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Petersburg shooting on Friday that left one man dead another man injured&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":130467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,596,215,64311,27486,202,204,203,199,201,200,3670,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-130466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-pinellas-county","10":"tag-shooting","11":"tag-shooting-in-st-petersburg","12":"tag-shooting-investigation","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","20":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130466","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=130466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130466\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/130467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=130466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=130466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=130466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}