{"id":152277,"date":"2026-02-11T23:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152277\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T23:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T23:57:07","slug":"man-shot-in-the-head-near-st-pete-convenience-store-police-searching-for-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152277\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot in the head near St. Pete convenience store; police searching for suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, the shooting happened in the area of Campbell Park, prompting a heavy police presence.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla \u2014 Police officers in St. Pete are looking for a suspect who they claim shot a man in the head in the Campbell Park area.<\/p>\n<p>According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, the shooting happened around 5 p.m. Wednesday on 9th Avenue South and 16th Street, close to a convenience store.<\/p>\n<p>Police told 10 Tampa Bay News that, according to witnesses, the suspect &#8220;may have gone into the Citrus Grove Apartment complex a couple of blocks away.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As of 6:30 p.m., no one has been taken into custody and the investigation is ongoing, according to SPPD.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene and took the man who was shot to Bayfront Hospital, SPPD says. He was taken into surgery.<\/p>\n<p>The incident has prompted a heavy police presence in the area Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, the shooting happened in the area of Campbell Park, prompting a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152278,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":{"0":"post-152277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-st-pete","9":"tag-st-pete-headlines","10":"tag-st-pete-news","11":"tag-st-petersburg","12":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","13":"tag-st-petersburg-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152277","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=152277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}