{"id":283597,"date":"2026-05-25T12:49:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283597\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T12:49:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T12:49:12","slug":"police-search-for-suspect-after-man-shot-killed-in-st-pete-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283597\/","title":{"rendered":"Police search for suspect after man shot, killed in St. Pete: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said they are searching for a suspect after a man was fatally shot on Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police said there was an altercation and a man in his late 20\u2019s was shot near 1st Avenue North and Beach Drive Northeast shortly before 3 a.m. on May 25.<\/p>\n<p>SPPD said officers responded to a report of gunshots, located the victim, and he was transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The man died of his injuries a few hours later, per SPPD.<\/p>\n<p>Police said they are still searching for the suspect and ask anyone with information to call SPPD at 727-893-7780 or text your tip to TIP411.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Tampa Bay 28 will provide more details as they become available.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/KATIE.LAGRONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Electric car door failures linked to deaths, trapped children and a new push for federal action<\/p>\n<p>A Tampa mother&#8217;s cell phone video from a Halloween morning two years ago still captures the panic she felt watching her 1\u00bd-year-old daughter trapped inside a Tesla Model 3 \u2014 unable to get out.<\/p>\n<p>Electric car door failures linked to deaths, trapped children and new push for federal action<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said they are searching for a suspect after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":183886,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[596,107032,215,202,204,203,21076,199,201,200,55612,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-283597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-shooting","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-pete-shooting","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-st-petersburg-police-department","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283597","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=283597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283597\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/183886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}