{"id":234394,"date":"2026-04-16T15:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234394\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T15:55:10","slug":"gas-station-altercation-leads-to-battery-with-cinder-block-shooting-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/234394\/","title":{"rendered":"Gas station altercation leads to battery with cinder block, shooting in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said two men were arrested after an altercation in a gas station parking lot escalated early Wednesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said officers responded to a person shot in the parking lot of the Mobil Gas Station on 34th Street North shortly after 1 a.m. on April 16.<\/p>\n<p>The report said 41-year-old Anthony Oliver and 29-year-old DeAndre Randolph had been in a verbal altercation when Randolph hit Oliver over the head with a cinder block.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver then used his firearm and shot at Randolph, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Both men sustained non-life-threatening injuries and were taken to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said both men were arrested and charged.<\/p>\n<p>Randolph is charged with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, while Oliver is charged with felon in possession of a firearm and possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/CHAD.MILLS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Fort Meade unanimously approves controversial data center deal despite fierce public pushback<\/p>\n<p>The vote clears a major hurdle for Stonebridge\u2019s proposed data center campus, planned for more than 1,300 acres northwest of downtown.<\/p>\n<p>Fort Meade approves controversial data center deal despite public pushback<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said two men were arrested after an altercation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[205,44768,1288,596,215,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":{"0":"post-234394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-st-petersburg","8":"tag-abc-action-news","9":"tag-cinder-block","10":"tag-gas-station","11":"tag-pinellas-county","12":"tag-shooting","13":"tag-st-pete","14":"tag-st-pete-headlines","15":"tag-st-pete-news","16":"tag-st-petersburg","17":"tag-st-petersburg-headlines","18":"tag-st-petersburg-news","19":"tag-tampa-bay-28","20":"tag-tampa-bay-local-news","21":"tag-wfts"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234394","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=234394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}