{"id":294143,"date":"2026-06-03T08:27:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:27:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294143\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T08:27:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T08:27:13","slug":"man-arrested-on-second-degree-murder-charge-days-after-deadly-shooting-in-downtown-st-pete-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/294143\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested on second-degree murder charge days after deadly shooting in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers responded just before 3 a.m. on May 25 to the area of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1st+Ave+N,+St.+Petersburg,+FL\/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x88c2e2568e527be9:0x2600aceff1f2739b?sa=X&amp;ved=1t:242&amp;ictx=111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">1st Avenue North and Beach Drive Northeast<\/a>, where they found 29-year-old Peter-Austin Afentakis shot. He was taken to the hospital, where he later died.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say the suspect, later identified as Jacob Carreras, 25, shot at Afentakis during a verbal argument that night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete police had a warrant out for Carreras&#8217; arrest, and the U.S. Marshals Service took him into custody in Hillsborough County. He will be extradited to Pinellas County to face charges.<\/p>\n<p>An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers responded just before 3 a.m. on May 25 to the area of 1st Avenue North and Beach&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294144,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-294143","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\/294143","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=294143"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294143\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294143"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294143"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294143"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}