{"id":327578,"date":"2026-07-02T19:02:22","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327578\/"},"modified":"2026-07-02T19:02:22","modified_gmt":"2026-07-02T19:02:22","slug":"man-arrested-after-86-year-old-man-dog-killed-in-st-pete-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/327578\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested after 86-year-old man, dog killed in St. Pete home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An 86-year-old man and a family dog were found dead in a South St. Petersburg home on Tuesday. A suspect is now in custody.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A man has been arrested and will be charged with murder after a shooting in St. Petersburg left an 86-year-old man and a dog dead.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg police say 43-year-old Jason Blythe was arrested Wednesday on unrelated charges and will be formally charged in connection with the homicide.<\/p>\n<p>The 86-year-old man was found dead Tuesday evening at a home on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5800+11th+St+S,+St.+Petersburg,+FL+33705\/@27.7156781,-82.6491976,17.75z\/data=!4m5!3m4!1s0x88c31de2868f19fd:0xa1bb728f02835f26!8m2!3d27.7157686!4d-82.6490019?entry=ttu&amp;g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDYyOC4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%253D%253D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">11th Street S near 58th Avenue S.<\/a>, along with his adult son&#8217;s dog that was staying with him.<\/p>\n<p>The motive for the killing remains unclear, but police say the victim and suspect knew each other.<\/p>\n<p>Blythe is currently being held without bond in Hillsborough County for a warrant out of Tifton County, Georgia, for aggravated assault on a police officer and fleeing and eluding.<\/p>\n<p>He will be transported to Pinellas County Jail once an arrest warrant is filed and charged with first-degree homicide, animal cruelty and felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An 86-year-old man and a family dog were found dead in a South St. Petersburg home on Tuesday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":327579,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-327578","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\/327578","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=327578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}