{"id":33777,"date":"2025-11-05T03:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33777\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T03:15:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T03:15:37","slug":"st-pete-man-dumped-gun-threw-clothing-off-skyway-bridge-after-murder-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33777\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete man dumped gun, threw clothing off Skyway Bridge after murder: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 One person was arrested in connection with a shooting that left a man dead in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/police-investigating-attempted-homicide-st-180848861.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:St. Petersburg last week.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">St. Petersburg last week. <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Corey Battle, 47, was arrested for second-degree murder in the shooting death of Jerome Smith, 44, the St. Petersburg Police Department announced.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Thursday, October 30, around 8:47 p.m., a neighbor called the police and said they found Smith bleeding at his home at the 800 block of 21st Avenue South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers arrived at the home, where they found Smith with a gunshot wound, but he was still alive. Smith was taken to the hospital, where he died three days later, SPPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">An investigation determined that Battle and Smith knew each other and had a dispute at Smith\u2019s home that escalated into a shooting, officers said. Battle claimed he shot Smith in the head because he pulled a gun on him first, according to an arrest report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The arrest report stated Battle told police he threw the gun into a waterway in south St. Pete and disposed of his clothing off the Sunshine Skyway Bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Battle was arrested and charged on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 One person was arrested in connection with a shooting that left a man&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33778,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[23640,22625,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-33777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-corey-battle","tag-jerome-smith","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\/33777","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=33777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}