Teen killed in Childs Park neighborhood shooting<\/p>\n
The backstory<\/p>\n
Investigators say the shooting happened just after 6:30 p.m. Friday in the 4200 block of 15th Avenue South in the Childs Park neighborhood.<\/p>\n
Police say Gaige Santos-Brown had planned to meet with three teens before an argument broke out and shots were fired.<\/p>\n
Santos-Brown was rushed to Orlando Health Bayfront Hospital, where he later died from his injuries, according to SPPD.<\/p>\n
Three teens now facing felony murder charges<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
On Tuesday, detectives announced the arrests of two more suspects: De’Antae Blunt, 15, and Vonaj Wright, 16. They were both booked on a felony murder charge, police said.<\/p>\n
Police previously arrested Kenneth Washington, 16, on Saturday. He faces charges of felony murder and violation of supervised release.<\/p>\n
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Courtesy: St. Pete Police Department<\/p>\n
Investigators say all suspects involved in the case have now been arrested.<\/p>\n
SPPD has not released mug shots for Blunt and Wright at this time.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information for this story was provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief St. Petersburg police say 14-year-old Gaige Santos-Brown was shot and killed Friday evening after meeting with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":286540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[121468,79141,120162,120448,202,204,203,199,201,200,65263,121467],"class_list":["post-286539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-childs-park-neighborhood","tag-felony-murder","tag-gaige-santos-brown","tag-kenneth-washington","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-supervised-release","tag-vonaj-wright"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286539","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=286539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/286540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}