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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Two men have been arrested in connection with the shooting of an 18-year-old earlier this month at a St. Petersburg<\/a> apartment complex, according to officers.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n The St. Petersburg Police Department says on Feb. 11, shortly before 5 p.m., the victim and another man met Charles Hinton, 18, and Christopher Tonsel, 21, in the parking lot of the Citrus Grove Apartments in the 700 block of 15th Street South.\u00a0<\/p>\n READ: Tampa shooting suspect accused of killing unarmed man following fight at a cookout: Police<\/a><\/p>\n The victim was sitting in the front passenger seat of a sedan when Hinton and Tonsel climbed into the back seat of the vehicle. A short time later, police say Hinton pulled out a handgun and fired, hitting the victim in the back of the neck.<\/p>\n Both Hinton and Tonsel then jumped out of the car and ran from the scene, according to SPPD.<\/p>\n The driver of the vehicle drove to a nearby convenience store in the 900 block of 16th Street South for help.<\/p>\n READ: Bradenton\u2019s IMG Academy fined $1.7M for taking tuition from Mexican drug cartel associates<\/a><\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n The victim was taken to a local hospital and is listed in stable condition.<\/p>\n Hinton and Tonsel, both from St. Pete, face charges of attempted first-degree murder and robbery with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: St. Petersburg Police Department ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Two men have been arrested in connection with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160359,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-160358","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pinellas","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-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160358","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=160358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160358\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}