{"id":270435,"date":"2026-05-14T04:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270435\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T04:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T04:24:20","slug":"st-petersburg-police-seek-men-after-brutal-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/270435\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg police seek men after &#8216;brutal attack&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Brief<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">St. Petersburg police are searching for three men who may have information about a brutal attack that occurred early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A 34-year-old man was punched and knocked unconscious during the assault in the 200 block of 1st Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators released photos of the three men and are asking anyone with information to contact the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; Police in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg?page=2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:St. Petersburg;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;St. Petersburg&quot;}\" class=\"link \">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said a 34-year-old man was punched and fell to the concrete unconscious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators said they want to speak with three men in connection with the attack.<\/p>\n<p>Identifying the men pictured<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators have not said if the three men pictured are suspects or witnesses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The motive behind the attack and the victim\u2019s condition is also unknown.<\/p>\n<p>Help police with information<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">What you can do<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 727-893-7780.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Source<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief St. Petersburg police are searching for three men who may have information about a brutal attack&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[101853,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-270435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-brutal-attack","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\/270435","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=270435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}