{"id":166867,"date":"2026-02-24T12:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166867\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-24T12:37:15","slug":"police-pinellas-park-mother-attempts-to-stab-kill-daughters-boyfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/166867\/","title":{"rendered":"Police: Pinellas Park mother attempts to stab, kill daughter&#8217;s boyfriend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 54-year-old woman was charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.<\/p>\n<p>PINELLAS PARK, Fla. \u2014 A Pinellas County mother was arrested after police say she tried to attack and stab her daughter&#8217;s boyfriend.<\/p>\n<p>The Pinellas Park Police Department responded around 4:30 p.m. Monday to a home in the area of 108th Avenue, where officials found three people, including two who had stab wounds.<\/p>\n<p>During the investigation, officers said 54-year-old Sandra Kegley tried to attack her daughter&#8217;s boyfriend, 23-year-old Eric Smith.<\/p>\n<p>Kegley&#8217;s daughter, 25-year-old Kyrsten Bleattler, was also injured when she reportedly tried to intervene.<\/p>\n<p>Bleattler and Smith were taken to a local hospital for treatment for non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Kegley was arrested at the scene and charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. She was booked into the Pinellas County Jail.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 54-year-old woman was charged with attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon. PINELLAS PARK,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":166868,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-166867","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166867","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=166867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166867\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}