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<\/p>\nThe Brief<\/p>\n
Officers responded to a call about an attempted suicide Sunday morning.<\/p>\n
The St. Petersburg Police Department said the shooting occurred after deploying several taser rounds.<\/p>\n
SPPD said the Pinellas County Use of Deadly Force Task Force has been activated to investigate the incident.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – The St. Petersburg Police Department is investigating an officer involved shooting that occurred Sunday morning on Pershing Street Northeast that resulted in the death of one person.<\/p>\n
St. Pete officer involved shooting<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
According to the Pinellas County Sheriff\u2019s Office, a call came in before 11:20 a.m. on Sunday about an attempted suicide inside a home.<\/p>\n
Based on preliminary information, deputies say two brothers were in the residence at the time when 37-year-old Kasey Sedlock was found with a knife.<\/p>\n
PCSO said the brother was able to disarm him before law enforcement arrived, and put the knife inside a car.<\/p>\n
But, when officers with the St. Pete Police Department arrived, they found Kasey inside the home with the knife.<\/p>\n
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He then began shouting at the cops to shoot him.<\/p>\n
Deputies say officers deployed a taser to disarm him. He fell to the floor and dropped the knife.<\/p>\n
But, Sedlock continued to try and reach for the knife, in which officers fired off their taser again. PCSO said Sedlock continued to tell officers to shoot him.<\/p>\n
PCSO said Sedlock then grabbed the knife again, got up and started coming towards the officers. At that point, one officer shot him four times.<\/p>\n
Sedlock was taken to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead at 12:18 p.m.<\/p>\n
One officer was transported to the hospital due to blood exposure, but no injuries were reported.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
PCSO had not released the name of the shooting officer, due to a new law starting on Wednesday, July 1st that prohibits law enforcement from releasing an officer\u2019s name in the first 72 hours of a shooting investigation. That officer has been placed on administrative leave pending the investigation.<\/p>\n
This is still an ongoing investigation. Updates will be released as they become available.<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
If you or a loved one is feeling distressed, call the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. The crisis center provides free and confidential emotional support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to civilians and veterans. If you or someone you know needs support now, call or text 988 or chat 988lifeline.org.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
This article was written using information from St. Petersburg Police Department and a press conference from the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief Officers responded to a call about an attempted suicide Sunday morning. The St. Petersburg Police Department…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":322836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[133741,1224,4448,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-322835","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-attempted-suicide","tag-officer","tag-pinellas-county-sheriffs-office","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\/322835","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=322835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}