{"id":152549,"date":"2026-02-12T04:45:22","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152549\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T04:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T04:45:22","slug":"man-shot-in-the-head-near-st-pete-convenience-store-police-searching-for-suspect-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/152549\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot in the head near St. Pete convenience store; police searching for suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As of 6:30 p.m., no one has been taken into custody and the investigation is ongoing, according to SPPD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident has prompted a heavy police presence in the area Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police officers in St. Pete are looking for a suspect who they claim shot a man in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[13151,8181,12094,202,204,203,199,201,200,23643],"class_list":{"0":"post-152549","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-convenience-store","9":"tag-police-officers","10":"tag-police-presence","11":"tag-st-pete","12":"tag-st-pete-headlines","13":"tag-st-pete-news","14":"tag-st-petersburg","15":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","16":"tag-st-petersburg-news","17":"tag-tampa-bay-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152549","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=152549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}