{"id":354759,"date":"2026-07-28T11:13:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354759\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:13:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:13:11","slug":"two-st-pete-men-charged-with-attempted-murder-after-victim-shot-in-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354759\/","title":{"rendered":"Two St. Pete men charged with attempted murder after victim shot in chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ST PETERSBURG, FLA. \u2014 Two St. Petersburg men were arrested by police after a victim was in the chest during a robbery last month, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Christopher Mackey, and Tyandre Howard, both, 19, were charged with attempted murder and home invasion robbery by the St. Petersburg Polce Department. <\/p>\n<p>On June 30 at about 1:24 a.m., Mackey, armed with a gun, planned to rob the victim and was let inside an apartment by a co-defendant \u2013 Tyandre Howard. <\/p>\n<p>Once Mackey was inside the apartment, Howard shot the man in the leg, shattering his femur, police officials said.<\/p>\n<p> Howard then shot the man in the chest. <\/p>\n<p>The suspects then took the victim\u2019s cell phone. <\/p>\n<p>The victim was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. <\/p>\n<p>he victim knew both men and identified them to police. <\/p>\n<p>Mackey was arrested on Monday, while Howard was arrested on July 7.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/HALEY.ZARCONE.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Left in the dark&#8217;: Families say they weren&#8217;t notified during Aviata evacuation<\/p>\n<p>Tampa Bay 28 heard from multiple families with similar questions and concerns about the lack of communication.<\/p>\n<p>&#8216;Left in the dark&#8217;: Families say they weren&#8217;t notified during Aviata evacuation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST PETERSBURG, FLA. \u2014 Two St. Petersburg men were arrested by police after a victim was in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84378,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[77106,1933,596,107032,58493,2632,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208],"class_list":["post-354759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-attempted","tag-murder","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","tag-rob","tag-shot","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354759","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=354759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84378"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}