{"id":352038,"date":"2026-07-25T09:15:58","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352038\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T09:15:58","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T09:15:58","slug":"st-pete-police-identify-suspect-in-shooting-of-city-employee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/352038\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Pete police identify suspect in shooting of city employee"},"content":{"rendered":"

The St. Petersburg Police Department identified the suspect, who is still in the hospital after Florida troopers arrested him on I-75.<\/p>\n

LEE COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 The St. Petersburg Police Department has identified the suspect involved in Wednesday’s shooting<\/a> of a St. Pete sanitation employee.<\/p>\n

Ladavion King, 43, allegedly shot and killed Tasha Moses, a 47-year-old mother of four and sanitation technician with the city of St. Petersburg, in the 4100 block of 12th Avenue South.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Police say the woman, whom King knew, was shot several times while in the cab of her front-end loader work vehicle after an argument broke out between them.<\/p>\n

According to police, he fled the scene and drove south on I-75.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Florida Highway Patrol troopers and deputies with the Lee County Sheriff’s Office found King barricaded inside his car in Fort Myers.<\/p>\n

King was arrested and brought to a Lee County hospital with serious injuries, FHP said. He is still being treated in the hospital but is in the custody of LCSO, according to St. Pete police.<\/p>\n

FHP confirmed in a press release Thursday morning that he “remains in serious condition at an area hospital.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

The FHP’s Bureau of Criminal Investigations and Intelligence Division is conducting an active investigation, but that “charges are forthcoming.”<\/p>\n

According to records from the Florida Department of Corrections<\/a>, King has a criminal history dating back to 2006. He was released in 2020 after serving 10 years for carjacking without a firearm or deadly weapon.<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The St. Petersburg Police Department identified the suspect, who is still in the hospital after Florida troopers arrested…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352039,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-352038","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\/352038","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=352038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352038\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}