{"id":297354,"date":"2026-06-05T16:19:32","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:19:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297354\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T16:19:32","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T16:19:32","slug":"deceased-usf-student-the-suspect-in-a-tampa-double-stabbing-identified-sheriff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/297354\/","title":{"rendered":"Deceased USF Student, The Suspect In A Tampa Double Stabbing, Identified: Sheriff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FL \u2014 Investigators have identified the suspect in a Wednesday morning double stabbing in Tampa, who was later found dead, as 21-year-old Hansel Pearson, the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office said in a news release. <\/p>\n<p>Pearson and one of the stabbing victims were roommates at an apartment complex on North 46th Street. <\/p>\n<p>Details surrounding Pearson\u2019s death weren\u2019t released by HCSO. <\/p>\n<p>Two of the three people involved in the investigations are University of South Florida students, the agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The Wednesday stabbing at the North 46th Street apartment was reported around 4:30 a.m. A man called 911to say that he and another person had been stabbed.<\/p>\n<p>Both victims were in stable condition when deputies arrived, the sheriff\u2019s office said.<\/p>\n<p>The sheriff\u2019s office said in an update at 3:45 p.m. that day that it was also conducting a separate death investigation at Union on Fletcher, an apartment complex at 3600 East Fletcher Ave.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives believe Pearson, who was found dead on Wednesday afternoon, is the stabbing suspect. <\/p>\n<p>See Also:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FL \u2014 Investigators have identified the suspect in a Wednesday morning double stabbing in Tampa, who was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297355,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-297354","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\/297354","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=297354"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297354\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}