died from her injuries<\/a>. Her 35-year-old sister was seriously burned and remains hospitalized, while two children, a 17-year-old and an 11-year-old, were not seriously hurt.<\/p>\nPolice say surveillance video from nearby homes played a critical role in identifying a suspect.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey relied heavily on this video surveillance from residential cameras, and one of the key points was they were able to obtain a video of a suspect approaching the residence and that shortly leaving afterwards when the fire started,\u201d Kovacsev said.<\/p>\n
Investigators say the person seen in the video was wearing dark clothing with a distinctive marking, which helped them narrow their focus.<\/p>\n
As detectives closed in, they began monitoring the suspect\u2019s home.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe father left [the house], went to a local business, went to the dumpster and discarded clothing that was similar to the distinctive sweatshirt that the suspect was wearing that evening,\u201d Kovacsev said.<\/p>\n
Chambliss\u2019 father, Charles Chambliss Jr., was later arrested and charged with tampering with evidence. During his interview, police say he incriminated himself and his son.<\/p>\n
A warrant for Charles Chambliss III was issued Monday and he turned himself in on Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n
Police say the suspect knew the family.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Best we can tell the 17-year-old who lived at the residence had known him [Chambliss III] since he was in grade school,” Kovacsev said. “He had been at that residence earlier that day. He\u2019d been over there numerous times in the past, but the issue is there might have been some type of disagreement; we don\u2019t know what caused him to go out at 3:30 in the morning to go do this. And we may never know.”<\/p>\n
Kovacsev says Chambliss III has prior felony convictions stemming from property crimes committed while he was a minor.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities say the 35-year-old woman who was injured remains in stable condition but faces a long recovery.<\/p>\n
Chambliss will be back in court on Monday, April 6.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say surveillance video helped track down an 18-year-old now charged with murder in a St. Pete fire…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":216598,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-216597","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\/216597","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=216597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}