{"id":300470,"date":"2026-06-08T21:24:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300470\/"},"modified":"2026-06-08T21:24:23","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T21:24:23","slug":"st-pete-man-punched-woman-in-the-face-repeatedly-hit-dog-with-shovel-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/300470\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man punched woman in the face, repeatedly hit dog with shovel: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A St. Pete man is facing multiple felony charges after police say he punched a woman and hit a dog on the head with a shovel multiple times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to arrest affidavits, Christopher Jerome Toliver, 37, was involved in a domestic incident on Sunday morning when he punched his girlfriend while another witness, her friend, was with them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police say Toliver took his girlfriend&#8217;s phone while she was trying to call 911 and report the incident. She used her friend&#8217;s phone instead to call law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Toliver&#8217;s girlfriend reportedly had injuries on the left side of her head.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to witness statements, Toliver was also seen hitting a dog on the head with a shovel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">While interviewing with police, they say Toliver admitted he had sent a text message where he stated, &#8220;I hit the dog with the shovel three times. In the head.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Toliver is charged with animal cruelty, battery and tampering with or withholding testimony\/information in a non-criminal proceeding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A St. Pete man is facing multiple felony charges after police say he punched a woman and hit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[126264,26829,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-300470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-christopher-jerome-toliver","tag-shovel","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\/300470","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=300470"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300470\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300470"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300470"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300470"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}