{"id":269697,"date":"2026-05-13T17:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269697\/"},"modified":"2026-05-13T17:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T17:25:14","slug":"st-petersburg-police-seek-men-after-brutal-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/269697\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg police seek men after &#8216;brutal attack&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/st.-pete-assault-persons-of-interest.jpg\" alt=\"\" data-v-7d0efd03=\"\"\/> article <\/p>\n<p data-v-7d0efd03=\"\">St. Petersburg police are searching for three men after they say a man was brutally attacked on Sunday morning. Courtesy: SPPD.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg?page=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg<\/a> are asking for help identifying three men following a brutal attack early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>   St. Petersburg assault investigation <\/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 the St. Petersburg Police Department, the attack happened at 2:25 a.m. on Sunday in the 200 block of 1st Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Police said a 34-year-old man was punched and fell to the concrete unconscious.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Investigators said they want to speak with three men in connection with the attack.<\/p>\n<p> Identifying the men pictured <\/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=\"\">Investigators have not said if the three men pictured are suspects or witnesses.<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">The motive behind the attack and the victim\u2019s condition is also unknown.<\/p>\n<p> Help police with information <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-871f4c88=\"\">Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 727-893-7780.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the St. Petersburg Police Department, which released photos of three individuals and details regarding an active assault investigation.<\/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\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-871f4c88=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article St. Petersburg police are searching for three men after they say a man was brutally attacked on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269698,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-269697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","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\/269697","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=269697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}