A suspect is in custody after a St. Pete city employee was shot and killed in the Childs Park neighborhood.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Police responded Wednesday afternoon to 12th Avenue, where they say the victim, a 47-year-old mother of four, was shot several times while in the cab of her front-end loader work vehicle.<\/p>\n
During a press conference, Chief Anthony Holloway said evidence suggests an argument broke out between the suspect and the victim \u2014 who knew each other \u2014 prior to the shooting.<\/p>\n
Just hours after the shooting, the Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) found the suspect on I-75 in Ft. Myers and pulled him over. Authorities said he was barricaded inside his car before being taken into custody in Lee County.<\/p>\n
FHP told CBS affiliate WINK that troopers believe shots were fired, although the extent of injuries is unknown at this time.<\/p>\n
The woman who was killed in the shooting worked for the city for 12 years and was a sanitation technician, police say.<\/p>\n
Detectives believe the shooting was “domestic-involved.”<\/p>\n
While today is a working day for city employees, officials could not confirm whether the woman was on the clock at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n
This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A suspect is in custody after a St. Pete city employee was shot and killed in the Childs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[142892,122672,25311,1056,618,117886,202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-349232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-chief-anthony-holloway","tag-city-employee","tag-city-employees","tag-fhp","tag-florida-highway-patrol","tag-ft-myers","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\/349232","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=349232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}