{"id":295524,"date":"2026-06-04T07:50:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:50:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295524\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T07:50:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T07:50:17","slug":"second-suspect-arrested-in-deadly-memorial-day-shooting-in-downtown-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/295524\/","title":{"rendered":"Second suspect arrested in deadly Memorial Day shooting in downtown St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video: Man shot and killed in downtown St. Petersburg during Memorial Day<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Police announced Wednesday that a second person was arrested in connection with a deadly Memorial Day shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, officers were called to 1st Avenue North and Beach Drive Northeast just before 3 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Investigators believe Jacob Carreras, 25, and Matthew Williams, 36, got into an argument with Peter-Austin Afentakis, 29.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Both suspects allegedly shot at Afentakis, and he later died of his injuries. A second victim suffered a minor injury, police said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/a9c3f968e32c677e7f10ad425e7a1e6c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Carreras was arrested on Tuesday for second -degree murder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Williams was arrested on Wednesday for second-degree murder, second-degree attempted murder, aggravated battery with a weapon, and violation of probation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video: Man shot and killed in downtown St. Petersburg during Memorial Day ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":295525,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[123908,124499,75415,121042,202,204,203,199,201,200,567],"class_list":["post-295524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-jacob-carreras","tag-matthew-williams","tag-memorial-day","tag-peter-austin-afentakis","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295524","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=295524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}