{"id":31725,"date":"2025-11-03T20:01:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31725\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T20:01:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T20:01:23","slug":"st-petersburg-man-faces-murder-charge-in-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31725\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg man faces murder charge in shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man is facing a murder charge after he fatally shot another man at his St. Petersburg home during a dispute last week, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police on Sunday arrested Corey Deron Battle, 47, on a second-degree murder charge in connection to the shooting of 44-year-old Jerome Smith three days earlier.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/54bf2facec0d2092219179842e4d32ce.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A neighbor of Smith\u2019s called police about 8:45 p.m. Thursday after finding him bleeding at his home in the 800 block of 21st Avenue South, according to the St. Petersburg Police Department. Officers found Smith alive and bleeding from a gunshot wound. He was taken to a local hospital and died there Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives determined that Battle shot Smith at the home during a dispute, police said. The two men knew each other.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to an arrest affidavit, Battle told police that he shot Smith in the head after Smith pulled a gun on him first. Battle said he then got rid of the gun in a waterway in a southern part of the city and disposed of the clothes he was wearing at the Sunshine Skyway Bridge, the affidavit states.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Battle lives on Oakley Avenue, about a mile west of Smith\u2019s home, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Battle was also booked into the Pinellas County Jail on two counts of failing to meet internet registration requirements for a sexual offender, records show. He was being held without bond on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man is facing a murder charge after he fatally shot another man at his St. Petersburg home&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[22626,22625,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-31725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-corey-deron-battle","tag-jerome-smith","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\/31725","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=31725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}