An 18-year-old St. Petersburg man turned himself in April 1 in connection with a deadly arson fire that killed a young woman and severely burned her sister last month, police said.<\/p>\n
Charles Chambliss III faces charges of felony murder and three counts of attempted felony murder, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n
Detectives issued a warrant for Chambliss on March 30, and he surrendered to police on April 1.<\/p>\n
The fire broke out shortly after 3:30 a.m. on March 22 at a home on Neptune Drive SE in the Coquina Key neighborhood. Police said Chambliss set fire to a car under the carport, and the flames spread to the home, where four people were inside.<\/p>\n
Angelina Anderson, 18, died from her injuries. Her sister, Ashley Nero, 35, remains hospitalized in stable condition with serious burns, police said. Nero’s two sons, a teenager and an 11-year-old, were also home but were not hurt.<\/p>\n
Chambliss lives nearby and knows the family, according to police.<\/p>\n
In a related arrest, Chambliss’ father, Charles Chambliss Jr., 46, was charged with tampering with physical evidence. Police said he threw away clothing items in a dumpster behind a closed business on March 27, knowing they could be relevant to the arson investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 18-year-old St. Petersburg man turned himself in April 1 in connection with a deadly arson fire that…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":222116,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[93303,9189,596,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-222115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-coquina-key","tag-crimes","tag-pinellas-county","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\/222115","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=222115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222115\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}