{"id":132511,"date":"2026-01-26T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132511\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T19:32:10","slug":"fatal-st-petersburg-robbery-shooting-is-apparent-self-defense-cops-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/132511\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatal St. Petersburg robbery shooting is apparent self-defense, cops say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One man was killed and another critically wounded in a shooting in St. Petersburg on Friday evening that police said appears to be a case of self-defense during a robbery attempt.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The shooting occurred just after 6:30 p.m. in the 900 block of 22nd Lane South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">St. Petersburg police said two armed men tried to rob two other men, who were in a parked vehicle. The men in the vehicle also were armed, and shots were fired.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">One of the robbers, whom police identified as Syltico Morand, 29, was shot and died at the scene. The second robber, whom police did not publicly identify, was taken to a hospital with critical injuries, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cAt this time, all the evidence points to a self-defense shooting, but there is additional investigative follow-up underway,\u201d police said in a news release. \u201cAs a result, the men who were detained and interviewed have not been charged for now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No other details were immediately released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One man was killed and another critically wounded in a shooting in St. Petersburg on Friday evening that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[34136,132,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-132511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-attempted-robbery","9":"tag-police","10":"tag-st-pete","11":"tag-st-pete-headlines","12":"tag-st-pete-news","13":"tag-st-petersburg","14":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","15":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132511","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=132511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}