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ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A second suspect was arrested in connection with a deadly shooting during a gun transaction inside a bathroom at the Childs Park YMCA in St. Petersburg last week, according to the St. Pete Police Department.<\/p>\n
St. Pete deadly YMCA shooting\u00a0 <\/p>\n
What we know:<\/p>\n
Police said that Jeremiah Peterson, 18, of St. Pete, turned himself in on Tuesday.<\/p>\n
Peterson faces a murder charge in connection with the shooting, which happened shortly before 2:10 p.m. at the Childs Park YMCA, located at 691 43rd St. S.<\/p>\n
PREVIOUS: St. Petersburg police arrest teen in fatal YMCA bathroom shooting<\/a><\/p>\n The shooting left an 18-year-old man dead.<\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n According to investigators, the victim and another 18-year-old man traveled from Clearwater to St. Pete to buy a gun. Police said they met My’ Kiese Johnson, 18, and Peterson inside a YMCA bathroom to complete the sale.<\/p>\n Detectives said the encounter turned violent, and gunfire erupted during what investigators described as a robbery.<\/p>\n Johnson was shot in the face during the incident but later went to a hospital on his own for treatment, police said.<\/p>\n Johnson was previously arrested on a charge of murder while engaged in a robbery.<\/p>\n Investigation, Childs Park YMCA status <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n Police have not released the identity of the victim.<\/p>\n The Childs Park YMCA has not provided an update after the organization announced last week they were closing until further notice as the investigation continued.<\/p>\n Police have not released any additional details about the circumstances surrounding Peterson’s arrest or the ongoing investigation.<\/p>\n The Source: Information for this story was provided by the St. Petersburg Police Department.<\/p>\n St. Petersburg<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: St. Petersburg Police Department ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – A second suspect was arrested in connection with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":356314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[630,47,115,1157,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-356313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-pinellas","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356313","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=356313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/356314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}