{"id":135012,"date":"2026-01-28T15:01:01","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135012\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T15:01:01","slug":"teen-gets-home-from-school-to-find-4-year-old-brother-stabbed-to-death-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/135012\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen gets home from school to find 4-year-old brother stabbed to death, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WTSP) &#8211; Police in Florida are investigating after a teenage girl found her 4-year-old brother stabbed to death and her mother with injuries at the family\u2019s home.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">St. Petersburg Police say a 16-year-old girl arrived home from school just after 3:30 p.m. Tuesday and found her 4-year-old brother, Finley Joseph Cullom, stabbed to death. She then called police.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The siblings\u2019 mother was also injured with stab wounds. She was taken to the hospital for the injuries, which were not life-threatening, and remained there as of Tuesday night, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Based on their preliminary investigation, police believe the mother stabbed her son. It\u2019s not clear if the wounds the mother had were self-inflicted.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police say the 16-year-old found a note in the house, which they believe was written by the mother. What the note said has not been released.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police were interviewing both the victim\u2019s mother and father.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WTSP via CNN Newsource. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WTSP) &#8211; Police in Florida are investigating after a teenage girl found her 4-year-old brother&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135013,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[66144,28,66146,66147,202,204,203,199,201,200,66145],"class_list":{"0":"post-135012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-boy-stabbed-to-death","9":"tag-florida","10":"tag-mother-accused-of-stabbing-son-to-death","11":"tag-mother-injured-with-stab-wounds","12":"tag-st-pete","13":"tag-st-pete-headlines","14":"tag-st-pete-news","15":"tag-st-petersburg","16":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","17":"tag-st-petersburg-news","18":"tag-teen-finds-brother-stabbed-to-death"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135012","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=135012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/135013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}