{"id":284175,"date":"2026-05-25T23:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284175\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T23:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T23:24:10","slug":"1-dead-in-downtown-st-petersburg-shooting-police-searching-for-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/284175\/","title":{"rendered":"1 dead in downtown St. Petersburg shooting; police searching for suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WFLA;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WFLA\" 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 12:12 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" 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_wfla_articles_649\/81c135000dae105e03faed98e4667534.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A man was fatally shot in downtown St. Petersburg early Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg Police Department officers were called to 1st Avenue North and Beach Drive Northeast, the area near South Straub Park, just before 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:3 hurt in late-night boat crash along Hillsborough River in Tampa;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aol.com\/news\/3-hurt-night-boat-crash-102524338.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a03 hurt in late-night boat crash along Hillsborough River in Tampa\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Police said there was an \u201caltercation\u201d that resulted in a man in his late 20s being shot. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the victim as 29-year-old Peter-Austin Afentakis. Officers are still searching for the shooting suspect.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information is asked to call SPPD at (727) 893-7780 or text SPPD + your tip to TIP 411.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mon, May 25, 2026 at 12:12 PM UTC ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A man was fatally shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":284176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200,567],"class_list":["post-284175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284175","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=284175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}