{"id":237020,"date":"2026-04-18T15:56:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237020\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T15:56:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T15:56:06","slug":"man-shot-after-crashing-car-and-attempting-to-break-into-a-home-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/237020\/","title":{"rendered":"Man shot after crashing car and attempting to break into a home: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg<\/a> Police Department said a man is dead after crashing a car and trying to break into a home.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">According to preliminary information, a 46-year-old man crashed a car in the area and entered a backyard of a nearby home at 3050 2nd Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The man then tried to break into the home through the back door, investigators said. The homeowner woke up after hearing the man\u2019s attempt to break in.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Three adults and one child were in the home at the time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">When the homeowner asked the man to leave, he continued to try and break in.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Investigators say the homeowner eventually shot the suspect. The 46-year-old was sent to the hospital where he later died.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">At this time, investigators say the homeowner has not been charged.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The suspect\u2019s identity has not been released, and the reason of the crash is still unknown.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">This is still an ongoing investigation. Information will be released as it becomes available.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This article was written using information from the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/sppd\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg Police Department<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; The St. Petersburg Police Department said a man is dead after crashing a car&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1536,1157,24834,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-237020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-pinellas","tag-sppd","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237020","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=237020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237020\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}