{"id":293987,"date":"2026-06-03T03:36:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:36:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293987\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T03:36:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T03:36:13","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-fatal-shooting-in-downtown-st-petersburg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293987\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after fatal shooting in downtown St. Petersburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A suspect has been arrested in connection to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/us\/articles\/st-petersburg-police-search-suspect-132505592.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:a fatal shooting in downtown St. Petersburg;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;a fatal shooting in downtown St. Petersburg&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a fatal shooting in downtown St. Petersburg<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jacob Carreras, 25, was arrested in Hillsborough County on a second-degree murder charge, St. Petersburg police announced Tuesday. Police say Carreras fatally shot 29-year-old Peter-Austin Afentakis shortly before 3 a.m. on May 25 after the two men got into an argument while standing outside in the 100 block of First Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/9d8dd227b2ef80a9117acd03483089e8.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The U.S. Marshals Service took Carreras into custody in Hillsborough County, and he was awaiting extradition to Pinellas, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">No other information has been released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect has been arrested in connection to a fatal shooting in downtown St. Petersburg last month. Jacob&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[17222,4823,276,123908,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-293987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-downtown-st-petersburg","tag-fatal-shooting","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-jacob-carreras","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\/293987","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=293987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}