{"id":343326,"date":"2026-07-17T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343326\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T11:42:21","slug":"st-petersburg-man-charged-with-attempted-murder-robbery-after-bartlett-park-attack-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343326\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg man charged with attempted murder, robbery after Bartlett Park attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police said surveillance video captured the attack, and a witness later positively identified Thurman as the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A St. Petersburg man has been arrested on charges of attempted second-degree murder and robbery following a violent attack at Bartlett Park, according to St. Petersburg police.<\/p>\n<p>Police identified the suspect as 49-year-old Dandre Thurman. Investigators said the victim was lying on a picnic table bench when Thurman approached and began punching, kicking and stomping on the victim&#8217;s head and face, which caused severe injuries and disfigurement.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities said Thurman then went through the victim&#8217;s backpack and stole personal items before leaving the area on foot. The victim was transported to Bayfront Health&#8217;s trauma center and remains in critical condition, according to arrest affidavits.<\/p>\n<p>Police said surveillance video captured the attack, and a witness later positively identified Thurman as the suspect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said surveillance video captured the attack, and a witness later positively identified Thurman as the suspect. ST.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343327,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-343326","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\/343326","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=343326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}