{"id":31282,"date":"2025-11-03T14:29:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31282\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T14:29:09","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-dispute-turns-into-fatal-shooting-at-st-pete-home-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31282\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after dispute turns into fatal shooting at St. Pete home: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said it has arrested a suspect for second-degree murder in the <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-pinellas\/attempted-murder-investigation-launched-after-shooting-at-home-st-pete-police\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">shooting death<\/a> of Jerome Smith.<\/p>\n<p>St. Pete detectives said a neighbor contacted police shortly before 9 p.m. on Oct. 30 after finding the 44-year-old man bleeding from a gunshot wound at his home in the 800 block of 21st Avenue South.<\/p>\n<p>Police said Smith was taken to the hospital and died from his injuries three days later, on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p>Police arrested 47-year-old Corey Deron Battle on Nov. 2 and charged him with second-degree murder. Detectives said their investigation determined that Battle and Smith had a dispute at Smith\u2019s home, which escalated to a shooting.<\/p>\n<p>This is an ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Trending_Video_TampaBay28.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know how important it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A Tampa woman <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/region-hillsborough\/tampa-woman-creates-list-to-help-families-find-food-during-possible-snap-funding-lapse\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">created a list <\/a>to help families find food during a possible SNAP funding lapse. Tampa Bay 28&#8217;s Chad Mills spoke with Kas Miller about the inspiration behind her project.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa woman creates list to help families find food during possible SNAP funding lapse<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said it has arrested a suspect for second-degree&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31283,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[22358,22359,205,596,202,204,22360,203,3669,21076,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-31282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-21st-avenue-south-fatal-shooting","tag-2nd-degree-muder","tag-abc-action-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-murder","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-pete-police","tag-st-pete-shooting","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31282","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=31282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31282\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31283"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}