ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — An 18-year-old man has died after a shooting Wednesday afternoon at\u00a0the Childs Park YMCA.<\/p>\n
According to St. Petersburg Police, officers were called to the YMCA in the 600 block of 43rd Street South just after 2 p.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities said the 18-year-old victim was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, and he later died of his injuries. His name has not being released.<\/p>\n
Investigators said that the victim and another 18-year-old man came from Clearwater to the YMCA to purchase a gun. Officials said the pair met Kiese Johnon, 18, and another man there and went into the bathroom to make the transaction.<\/p>\n
That’s when the meeting turned violent, authorities said, and gunfire was exchanged.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In addition to the fatal shooting, Johnson suffered a minor injury\u00a0to the face and was treated at an area hospital.\u00a0He was arrested and charged with murder while engaged in a robbery.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, the man who arrived with Johnson remains at large.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Authorities said an investigation into the incident remains active.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — An 18-year-old man has died after a shooting Wednesday afternoon at\u00a0the Childs Park YMCA.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":350057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[274,265,115,596,277,275,202,204,203,199,201,200,135,278],"class_list":["post-350056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-app-top-stories","tag-crime","tag-news","tag-pinellas-county","tag-public-safety","tag-spectrum-news-staff","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350056","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=350056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/350057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}