{"id":285072,"date":"2026-05-26T19:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285072\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T19:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T19:11:15","slug":"suspect-in-downtown-st-pete-fatal-shooting-sought-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/285072\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect In Downtown St. Pete Fatal Shooting Sought By Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Investigators are searching for the suspect in an early Saturday morning fatal shooting in downtown St. Petersburg. <\/p>\n<p>Peter-Austin Afentakis, 29, was shot and killed during an altercation near 1st Avenue N. and Beach Drive NE just before 3 a.m., St. Petersburg police said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Officers responded to a report of gunshots in the area and found the victim at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>Afentakis was brought to a nearby hospital, where he died from his injuries a few hours later, police said. <\/p>\n<p>A man who lives in an apartment building near where the shooting happened heard the gunfire. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was like, well, it is a holiday, so maybe it could possibly be fireworks or something like that. But then I heard an ambulance, and then no real noise after that,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/witnesses-describe-shooting-in-downtown-st-petersburg-during-memorial-day\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">he told WFLA<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The suspect is still at large Tuesday morning. No information has been released about the suspect\u2019s identity. <\/p>\n<p>Anyone with information about the shooting is urged to call St. Petersburg police at 727-893-7780 or text SPPD and the tip to TIP 411.<\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 Investigators are searching for the suspect in an early Saturday morning fatal shooting in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285073,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-285072","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"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285072","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=285072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285073"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}