{"id":293724,"date":"2026-06-02T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293724\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T23:17:07","slug":"arrest-made-in-fatal-memorial-day-shooting-on-1st-ave-n-st-pete-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293724\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made In Fatal Memorial Day Shooting On 1st Ave. N.: St. Pete Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A man has been arrested in connection with a fatal downtown St. Petersburg shooting in the early hours of Memorial Day, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Jacob Carreras, 25, was charged with second-degree murder, St. Petersburg police said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>He\u2019s accused of shooting and killing 29-year-old Peter-Austin Afentakis, 29, just before 3 a.m. on May 25. <\/p>\n<p>Carreras and Afentakis got into an argument while on the street in the 100 block of 1st Avenue N.<\/p>\n<p>Carreras shot the victim, who later died from his injuries, police said. <\/p>\n<p>Police issued a warrant for the suspect\u2019s arrest, and the U.S. Marshals Service took him into custody in Hillsborough County. <\/p>\n<p>Carreras will be extradited to Pinellas County to face charges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, FL \u2014 A man has been arrested in connection with a fatal downtown St. Petersburg shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-293724","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\/293724","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=293724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}