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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A second suspect was arrested in connection with a downtown St. Petersburg shooting that left one man dead and another injured over Memorial Day weekend<\/a>, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n Second arrest made in homicide investigation <\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n Police announced Wednesday that investigators arrested Matthew Williams, 36, in connection with the May 25 shooting death of Peter-Austin Afentakis, 29.<\/p>\n Courtesy: St. Petersburg Police Department <\/p>\n Williams faces the following charges:<\/p>\n Second-degree murderAttempted second-degree murderAggravated battery with a deadly weaponViolation of probation <\/p>\n The arrest comes just a day after police announced the arrest of Jacob Carreras, 25, in the same case. He faces a second-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n Downtown St. Pete shooting <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n According to investigators, shortly before 3 a.m. on May 25, Carreras and Williams became involved in a verbal altercation with Afentakis in the 100 block of 1st Avenue North in downtown St. Pete.<\/p>\n Police say the confrontation escalated, and both suspects fired shots at Afentakis.<\/p>\n Afentakis was shot and later died from his injuries.<\/p>\n Second victim injured <\/p>\n Investigators said a second victim suffered a minor injury during the shooting.<\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Police have not released additional information about that victim.<\/p>\n SPPD said the homicide investigation is still ongoing.<\/p>\n Investigators have not released additional details about what led to the altercation or whether additional charges could be filed as the investigation continues.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was provided by 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 second suspect was arrested in connection with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295000,"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-294999","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\/294999","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=294999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/williams-carreras-mug-6.3.jpg\")
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