{"id":356297,"date":"2026-07-29T15:01:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356297\/"},"modified":"2026-07-29T15:01:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-29T15:01:09","slug":"2nd-murder-suspect-in-deadly-childs-park-ymca-shooting-turns-himself-in-sppd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/356297\/","title":{"rendered":"2nd murder suspect in deadly Childs Park YMCA shooting turns himself in: SPPD"},"content":{"rendered":"

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The St. Pete Police Department (SPPD) said an 18-year-old man, identified as the second suspect in a killing, has turned himself on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

SPPD said on July 29 that Jeremiah Peterson is in custody for felony murder following the death of an 18-year-old man after a shooting inside a bathroom at the Childs Park YMCA last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

An 18-year-old victim was taken to the hospital with gunshot wounds, and he later died of his injuries, per SPPD.<\/p>\n

Police said the 18-year-old victim and another 18-year-old man had traveled from Clearwater to St. Petersburg to purchase a gun.<\/p>\n

According to police, the two teenagers met 18-year-old My’Kiese Johnson of St. Petersburg and Peterson at the YMCA. The report said they all went into the bathroom to conduct a transaction, and it turned violent, and gunfire was exchanged.<\/p>\n

Police responded to the shooting at the facility located at 691 43rd St. S. shortly after 2 p.m. on July 22.<\/p>\n

Johnson was shot in the face and went to the hospital to receive treatment, per SPPD. <\/p>\n

Johnson was then arrested and he was later charged with felony murder. <\/p>\n

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Pinellas educators speak out about potential health insurance hikes<\/p>\n

Pinellas County School Board approved enlisting help from a third party to review policies and look for savings.<\/p>\n

‘I don’t know what to do’: Educators speak out about potential health insurance hike impacts<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 The St. Pete Police Department (SPPD) said an 18-year-old man, identified as the second…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[81491,145424,145425,596,107032,202,204,203,199,201,200,5910,3670,208,597],"class_list":["post-356297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-childs-park","tag-jeremiah-peterson","tag-mykiese-johnson","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-news","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","tag-ymca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356297","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=356297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}