{"id":360855,"date":"2026-08-02T17:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360855\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T17:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T17:46:11","slug":"pinellas-park-police-arrest-suspect-following-psta-bus-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/360855\/","title":{"rendered":"Pinellas Park police arrest suspect following PSTA bus shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">PINELLAS PARK Fla. &#8211; Pinellas Park police took a person into custody Sunday morning after a person was shot aboard a PSTA bus.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Pinellas Park police bus investigation   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Officers responded to US Highway 19 N and 49th Street N around 11:45 a.m. Sunday after receiving reports of a gunshot victim on a Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The shooter ran from the bus, but officers found the person nearby at Freedom Lake Park.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/vlcsnap-2026-08-02-13h00m24s945.png\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-2fe2fe3e=\"\">A tow truck prepares to load a PSTA bus where a shooting occurred. <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The suspect was arrested without further incident a short time later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">First responders transported the victim to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">There is no current threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p> PSTA bus shooting incident <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Authorities have not released the names or ages of the shooter or the victim.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police have also not shared details regarding what led up to the gunfire.<\/p>\n<p> Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority response <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">&#8220;The investigation is ongoing, and we do not have comment at this time,&#8221; said Amanda Baird, director of communications and marketing for the Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the Pinellas Park Police Department press release, as well as a statement from Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/pinellas\/pinellas-park\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pinellas Park<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/organization\/psta\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">PSTA<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PINELLAS PARK Fla. &#8211; Pinellas Park police took a person into custody Sunday morning after a person was&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360856,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[47,115,1536,1157,4226,12824,202,204,203,199,201,200,628],"class_list":["post-360855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-fl","tag-news","tag-organization","tag-pinellas","tag-pinellas-park","tag-psta","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\/360855","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=360855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360855\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}