{"id":283941,"date":"2026-05-25T19:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283941\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T19:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T19:28:09","slug":"1-shot-killed-during-altercation-in-st-pete-police-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/283941\/","title":{"rendered":"1 shot, killed during altercation in St. Pete: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:Fox local;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"Fox local\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/lo\/mysterio\/api\/232C1E841BC0BB863E0E9B74B574D5BADEBDCEDD7912DF6C56EBCD799BAD61E9\/subgraphmysterio\/resizefill_w0_h40;quality_80;format_webp\/\"\/><\/a>Mon, May 25, 2026 at 2:09 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" width=\"976\" height=\"549\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/aol_fox_aggregated_articles_807\/42b160da9dd39657b8a8fe95c18b4402.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A man was shot and killed early Monday morning during an altercation, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The Brief<\/p>\n<p>A deadly St. Petersburg shooting left a man dead following a fight early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Police found a wounded man in his late 20s near a downtown intersection after receiving reports of gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>The shooter fled the scene and remains at large while detectives search for clues.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; The <a data-ylk=\"slk:St. Petersburg;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg?page=2\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a> Police Department is searching for a shooter who killed a man during a downtown fight early Monday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg police investigation<\/p>\n<p>What we know<\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to reports of gunfire around 3 a.m. Monday near 1st Ave N and Beach Dr NE. Police found a wounded man who was in his late 20s.<\/p>\n<p>The man, later identified as Peter-Austin Afentakis, was rushed to an area hospital. He died a few hours later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Investigators said a fight broke out before someone pulled a gun and fired shots.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Officers have not located the shooter yet.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Downtown shooting suspect search<\/p>\n<p>What we don&#8217;t know<\/p>\n<p>Police have not provided a physical description of the shooter they are looking for.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Public safety anonymous tips<\/p>\n<p>What you can do<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who has information about the deadly shooting is urged to call the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-7780.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tipsters can also send text messages anonymously by texting the word TIP and the information to 411.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Source<\/p>\n<p>The information in this story was gathered from the St. Petersburg Police Department, which detailed the timeline of the shooting and current investigative updates in an official news release.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, May 25, 2026 at 2:09 PM UTC A man was shot and killed early Monday morning during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":283942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[14050,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-283941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-deadly-shooting","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\/283941","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=283941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/283941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/283942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=283941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=283941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}