{"id":255800,"date":"2026-05-02T20:50:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255800\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T20:50:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T20:50:09","slug":"police-negotiating-with-barricaded-man-at-st-pete-apartment-complex-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/255800\/","title":{"rendered":"Police negotiating with barricaded man at St. Pete apartment complex: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Police are negotiating with a barricaded man at the Vantage Point Apartments on Gandy Boulevard North after he allegedly made threats by phone and on social media, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said the man called threats into the agency\u2019s communications center before posting additional threatening statements online, according to a news release.<\/p>\n<p>Police said negotiators are currently in contact with him.<\/p>\n<p>No additional details about the man or what led to the incident have been released.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation and negotiations remain ongoing. Tampa Bay 28 has a team on the scene working to learn more.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JADA.WILLIAMS.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Petition calls for safety overhaul at Avalon Heights after 2 students killed<\/p>\n<p>A University of South Florida student has launched a petition calling for safety reforms at Avalon Heights apartments in Tampa following the deaths of two USF doctoral students, Zamil Limon and Nahida Bristy.<\/p>\n<p>Petition calls for safety overhaul at Avalon Heights after 2 USF doctoral students were killed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Police are negotiating with a barricaded man at the Vantage Point Apartments on Gandy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":255801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[5505,17256,2391,596,107032,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,111189,208],"class_list":["post-255800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-barricade","tag-gandy-boulevard","tag-man","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-vantage-point-apartments","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255800","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=255800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/255800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/255801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=255800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=255800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=255800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}