{"id":165605,"date":"2026-02-23T13:29:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165605\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:29:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:29:34","slug":"clearwater-man-charged-after-being-shot-in-apartment-incident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/165605\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearwater man charged after being shot in apartment incident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEARWATER, Fla. \u2014 A Clearwater man was shot outside an apartment complex after police say he threatened two people with a knife.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives with the Clearwater Police Department (CPD) said Josten Pack, 37, confronted a man and woman outside the Royal Breeze Apartments on U.S. 19 North Saturday night. Fearing for his life and the safety of his girlfriend, the man shot Pack.<\/p>\n<p>Pack was taken to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital in St. Petersburg as a trauma alert, treated, and later released. He was then booked into the Pinellas County Jail on a charge of aggravated assault.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Pack also faces a separate charge of battery on a person 65 or older for an incident the previous day. In that case, investigators said he threw a water bottle at a 70-year-old woman at a nearby business, striking her in the face.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said there is no ongoing threat to the community.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KATIE.LAGRONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Wild excuses from drivers charged under FL\u2019s new super speeder law<\/p>\n<p>Florida drivers caught going more than 100 mph or 50 mph over the speed limit now face criminal charges under a new state law, which took effect in July, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Wild excuses from drivers charged under FL\u2019s new super speeder law<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEARWATER, Fla. \u2014 A Clearwater man was shot outside an apartment complex after police say he threatened two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":940,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,78867,596,78868,215,135,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-165605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-clearwater-shooting","tag-pinellas-county","tag-royal-breeze-apartments","tag-shooting","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165605","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=165605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165605\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}