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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A suspect was arrested in connection with a downtown St. Petersburg shooting that left a man dead over Memorial Day weekend,<\/a> according to the St. Pete<\/a> Police Department.<\/p>\n Downtown St. Petersburg shooting <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Police said Jacob Carreras, 25, and Peter-Austin Afentakis, 28, were arguing shortly before 3 a.m. on May 25 in the 100 block of 1st Avenue North in downtown St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n Investigators say the altercation escalated when Carreras allegedly pulled out a gun and shot Afentakis.<\/p>\n Shooting victim dies at hospital <\/p>\n Officers responded to reports of gunfire near 1st Avenue North and Beach Drive Northeast, where they found Afentakis suffering from gunshot wounds.<\/p>\n Afentakis was taken to a local hospital, where he later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n Suspect arrested in Hillsborough County <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Following the investigation, St. Petersburg police got a warrant for Carreras’ arrest.<\/p>\n The U.S. Marshals Service located and arrested Carreras in Hillsborough County<\/a>.<\/p>\n Police said Carreras will be extradited to Pinellas County<\/a> to face a second-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n Investigation continues <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Police have not released additional details about the circumstances surrounding the altercation or whether any other individuals were involved.<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n SPPD said the investigation remains ongoing. Anyone with information related to the case is encouraged to contact investigators.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was gathered from the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: St. Petersburg Police Department ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A suspect was arrested in connection with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-293525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293525","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=293525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}