{"id":328414,"date":"2026-07-03T13:26:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:26:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328414\/"},"modified":"2026-07-03T13:26:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T13:26:23","slug":"suspect-in-custody-after-man-family-dog-found-dead-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/328414\/","title":{"rendered":"Suspect in custody after man, family dog found dead in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a data-ylk=\"elm:icon;slk:WFLA;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"WFLA\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"96\" height=\"96\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"pr-2.5 max-w-[150px] max-h-[40px] min-[601px]:max-w-[115px]\" style=\"color:transparent;max-width:auto;max-height:100%\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/aol_wfla_articles_649.png\"\/><\/a>Updated Thu, July 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM UTC<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"standard-img w-full w-full h-auto\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/cdea9eb5-509f-45e8-b567-da96b3e01516.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ST PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A suspect who police believe killed a man and a dog in St. Petersburg was taken into custody on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to the St. Pete Police Department, an <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/86-year-old-man-dog-found-dead-in-st-pete-home\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">86-year-old man and his family dog<\/a> were found dead on Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p>Detectives believe Jason Blythe, 43, shot both the man and the dog to death in the <a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\/news\/pinellas-county\/person-found-dead-in-st-pete-homicide-investigation-foul-play-suspected\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">5800 block of 11th Street South. <\/a><\/p>\n<p>While police said the motive remains unclear, the suspect and the victim were acquainted.<\/p>\n<p>Blythe was arrested in Tampa on a warrant out of Georgia for aggravated assault on a peace officer and eluding. He is being held without bond in Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p>Once detectives and the\u00a0State Attorney\u2019s Office complete filing the arrest warrant, Blythe will be moved to the Pinellas County Jail\u00a0on the charges of first-degree homicide, animal cruelty, and felon in possession of a firearm.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\tFor the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Thu, July 2, 2026 at 6:39 PM UTC ST PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 A suspect who police&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68422,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-328414","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\/328414","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=328414"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328414\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}