{"id":325913,"date":"2026-07-01T13:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325913\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T13:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T13:26:09","slug":"st-pete-police-identify-suspect-after-86-year-old-man-family-dog-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/325913\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete police identify suspect after 86-year-old man, family dog killed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">St. Petersburg<\/a> police have released new details in a homicide investigation after an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/homicide-investigation-underway-st-pete-no-suspect-custody-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">86-year-old man was found dead Tuesday in the 5800 block of 11th Street South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> St. Pete homicide   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the St. Pete Police Department, the man was killed in what appears to be an isolated incident, and a person of interest has been identified.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police also revealed that the suspect killed a family member&#8217;s dog that was with the victim.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Detectives said they suspected foul play after finding the man dead in the Greater Pinellas Point neighborhood.<\/p>\n<p> Victim identity and motive <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">No arrests have been announced at this time.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police have not released the victim&#8217;s identity or said what led to the killing.<\/p>\n<p> Person of interest investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Anyone with information about the case is asked to contact the St. Petersburg Police Department at 727-893-7780 or text SPPD followed by the tip to TIP411.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information for this story was provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/st-petersburg\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. &#8211; St. Petersburg police have released new details in a homicide investigation after an 86-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-325913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325913","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=325913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}