{"id":31827,"date":"2025-11-03T21:13:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31827\/"},"modified":"2025-11-03T21:13:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T21:13:06","slug":"st-petersburg-police-arrest-murder-suspect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/31827\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg Police arrest murder suspect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; St. Petersburg Police department (SPPD) detectives arrested Corey Deron Battle, age 47, for 2nd degree murder in the shooting death of Jerome Smith, age 44.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On Oct. 30, a neighbor found Smith in his home, bleeding from a gunshot wound. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/11\/03\/bradenton-police-request-help-identifying-burglary-suspect\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/2025\/11\/03\/bradenton-police-request-help-identifying-burglary-suspect\/\">Bradenton police request help identifying burglary suspect<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Police arrived at the home and took Smith to a hospital for treatment. Authorities said he died from his injuries three days later, on Nov. 2.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">SPPD said that through their investigation, detectives determined that Battle and Smith knew each other and that they allegedly had a dispute at Smith\u2019s home that escalated into a shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">This case is still an active investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; St. Petersburg Police department (SPPD) detectives arrested Corey Deron Battle, age 47, for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":31828,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[693,220,22658,22659,265,22660,3668,5695,22661,6131,16783,9503,22662,22666,712,3986,716,1224,22663,132,22664,22665,724,12320,202,204,203,199,201,200,1070,8848,1798,107,730,732,22667],"class_list":["post-31827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-auto","tag-car","tag-commute","tag-conducting","tag-crime","tag-driver-license","tag-drug","tag-dui","tag-flashing-lights","tag-highway","tag-horizontal","tag-insurance","tag-intervention","tag-l","tag-law","tag-legal","tag-night","tag-officer","tag-outlaw","tag-police","tag-police-cruiser","tag-policeman","tag-road","tag-search","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-traffic-stop","tag-transport","tag-transportation","tag-travel","tag-urban","tag-vehicle","tag-violent"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31827","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=31827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}