{"id":238658,"date":"2026-04-20T09:29:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238658\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T09:29:31","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T09:29:31","slug":"st-petersburg-police-arrest-suspect-in-april-15-homicide-at-14th-avenue-south-duplex","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/238658\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Police Arrest Suspect in April 15 Homicide at 14th Avenue South Duplex"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a robbery with drug overtones that turned deadly on April 15, 2026, at 11:49 p.m. at a duplex located at 863 14th Avenue South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Detectives say John Knight, 48, was taken into custody and charged with First Degree Felony Murder, Attempted Felony Murder, and Felon in Possession of a Firearm.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">According to investigators, Knight and 56-year-old Ronnie Dials entered the duplex intending to rob the resident. During an altercation inside the home, both Dials and the resident were shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Dials died at the scene. The resident survived and remains hospitalized with injuries.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Police said the investigation remains active and ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Advertisement &#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG \u2014 Police have arrested a suspect in connection with a robbery with drug overtones that turned&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-238658","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\/238658","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=238658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}