{"id":343403,"date":"2026-07-17T13:33:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343403\/"},"modified":"2026-07-17T13:33:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-17T13:33:13","slug":"man-left-disfigured-after-violent-attack-at-st-pete-park-suspect-arrested","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/343403\/","title":{"rendered":"Man left disfigured after violent attack at St. Pete park; suspect arrested"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Police arrested a man Tuesday in connection with a violent attack that occurred at Bartlett Park in St. Pete.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, the incident occurred on July 6 at 6:30 a.m. in Bartlett Park, located at 2000 7th St. South.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police said a man was lying down on a picnic table bench when the suspect approached him, punched, kicked, and stomped on his face. The suspect then stole an unnamed item from the victim&#8217;s backpack before leaving the area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The victim was left in critical condition with severe injuries and disfigurement to his head and face, SPPD said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">D&#8217;eauary Thurman, 49, was arrested Tuesday on charges of second-degree attempted murder and robbery.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 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 This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.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 data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Police arrested a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":343404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[140458,140459,202,204,203,199,201,200,140460,567],"class_list":["post-343403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-bartlett-park","tag-picnic-table-bench","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-violent-attack","tag-wfla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343403","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=343403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/343403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/343404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=343403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=343403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=343403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}