St. Petersburg Police have arrested 47-year-old Corey Deron Battle on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with the death of 44-year-old Jerome Smith.<\/p>\n
Smith was shot on October 30, 2025, at his residence at 833 21st Avenue South and later died from his injuries on Sunday, November 2, 2025.<\/p>\n
Detectives say a neighbor contacted police at 8:47 p.m. on the night of the shooting after finding Smith bleeding inside the home. Officers arrived to find Smith suffering from a gunshot wound. He was transported to the hospital, where he died three days later.<\/p>\n
Investigators determined that Battle and Smith knew each other and that a dispute at Smith\u2019s home escalated into the shooting.<\/p>\n
Battle was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder on November 2.<\/p>\n
Police report the case remains an active investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Police have arrested 47-year-old Corey Deron Battle on a charge of second-degree murder in connection with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-31636","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\/31636","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=31636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}