{"id":349402,"date":"2026-07-23T02:31:34","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349402\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T02:31:34","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T02:31:34","slug":"st-petersburg-sanitation-worker-killed-suspect-arrested-after-i-75-chase-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/349402\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Petersburg sanitation worker killed, suspect arrested after I-75 chase"},"content":{"rendered":"

FORT MYERS, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A suspect is hospitalized after authorities said the suspect killed a city employee, fled a traffic stop and barricaded themselves inside a vehicle before video showed a shootout with law enforcement on I-75.<\/p>\n

According to the St. Petersburg Police Department<\/a>, officers responded to a reported shooting on 12th Avenue. Police said the victim was a 47-year-old woman who had worked as a St. Petersburg sanitation technician for 12 years.<\/p>\n

Police said the woman was sitting inside her front-loader sanitation truck when she was shot and killed. She lives behind four children. <\/p>\n

Investigators said the suspect and the victim knew each other, and the shooting was targeted.<\/p>\n

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The suspect then fled the scene and drove south. The Florida Highway Patrol <\/a>said troopers received a BOLO alert indicating the suspect was believed to be suicidal.<\/p>\n

FHP said troopers located the suspect in Lee County and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but the suspect fled. The pursuit ended after troopers performed a PIT maneuver near the southbound Exit 128 ramp at Alico Road on Interstate 75.<\/p>\n

Authorities said the suspect refused commands and barricaded himself inside the vehicle.<\/p>\n

Video shared with CBS affiliate WINK News shows law enforcement engaged in a shootout with the suspect. In another video gunshots can be heard while a viewer takes video of the scene. <\/p>\n

State troopers and deputies with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office eventually took the suspect into custody. The suspect was hospitalized with serious injuries.<\/p>\n

No law enforcement officers were injured.<\/p>\n

The Florida Department of Law Enforcement<\/a> is investigating the scene. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (CBS12) \u2014 A suspect is hospitalized after authorities said the suspect killed a city employee,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":349369,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-349402","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\/349402","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=349402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/349369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}