{"id":31549,"date":"2025-11-03T17:58:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:58:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31549\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T17:58:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T17:58:16","slug":"suspect-arrested-after-dispute-turns-into-fatal-shooting-at-st-pete-home-sppd-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31549\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect arrested after dispute turns into fatal shooting at St. Pete home: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/1762192696_160_image\" alt=\"https:\/\/img.particlenews.com\/image.php?url=17UXeS_16EwKa5500\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\"\/><\/p>\n<p>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>Latest Pinellas County News from Tampa Bay 28<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Petersburg Police Department (SPPD) said it has arrested a suspect for second-degree murder in the shooting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31550,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[749,266,748,202,204,203,199,201,200,22528,5910],"class_list":["post-31549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-breaking-news","tag-local-news","tag-newsbreak","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-suspect-arrested-after-dispute-turns-into-fatal-shooting-at-st-pete-home-sppd","tag-tampa-bay-28"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31549","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=31549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}