ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A homicide investigation is underway after a man was fatally shot early Saturday morning while breaking into an Historic Kenwood home, St. Petersburg police said.<\/p>\n
Officers responding to reports of shots being fired in the 300 block of 2nd Avenue North around 12:20 a.m. found a 46-year-old man with a gunshot wound.<\/p>\n
Before the shooting, the man crashed a car in the area and ran from the vehicle into the backyard of a nearby home, according to the preliminary investigation. Police said the reason for the crash is unknown.<\/p>\n
The man then tried to break into the home through the back, investigators said.<\/p>\n
Awakened by the man\u2019s repeated attempts to enter the house, the homeowner ordered him to leave, but he continued trying to get inside.<\/p>\n
The homeowner eventually fired shots at the man, striking him, police said.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s identity has not been released pending notification of next of kin.<\/p>\n
Three adults and a child were inside the home at the time of the shooting, police said.<\/p>\n
At this point, the homeowner has not been charged. The investigation remains ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A homicide investigation is underway after a man was fatally shot early Saturday morning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238939,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-238938","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\/238938","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=238938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238938\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}