{"id":349021,"date":"2026-07-22T20:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349021\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T20:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T20:52:11","slug":"2-young-men-hurt-in-shooting-at-childs-park-ymca-in-st-pete","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349021\/","title":{"rendered":"2 young men hurt in shooting at Childs Park YMCA in St. Pete"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The St. Petersburg Police Department is on the scene of a shooting at the YMCA in Childs Park.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 Two young men were hurt in a shooting Wednesday afternoon at the Childs Park YMCA in St. Pete.<\/p>\n<p>Police responded at 2:09 p.m. to reports of a shooting at the YMCA on 43rd Street South. Officers found a young man shot in the bathroom before safely clearing the building. He was transported to the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Another young man later showed up at the hospital with a gunshot wound, Ashley Limardo, the St. Pete Police Department&#8217;s public information specialist, said. The extent of their injuries is unknown.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Limardo did not share information about a suspect but said police do not believe there is any danger to the community.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur concern right now is for our team inside. And we\u2019re here to support the police in anyway we can,&#8221; Suzanne Delaney, the chief advancement officer for the greater St. Petersburg YMCA, told 10 Tampa Bay News.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Petersburg Police Department is on the scene of a shooting at the YMCA in Childs Park.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349022,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-349021","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\/349021","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=349021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}