The Brief<\/p>\n
St. Petersburg police officers fought with a 48-year-old man in a mental health crisis who stopped breathing after being detained Saturday.<\/p>\n
Officers attempted CPR before paramedics took the man to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Detectives are investigating the use of force, while the official cause of death remains pending an autopsy, PCSO said.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – Detectives are investigating the use of force by St. Petersburg police officers after a 48-year-old man died following a fight with police, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
St. Petersburg police use of force investigation<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
Police responded to a reported mental health crisis Saturday morning, investigators said.<\/p>\n
A man was pronounced dead at a hospital after officers knocked on the door of his home in the Fossil Park neighborhood and fought with him after he went outside and attacked officers, according to PCSO.<\/p>\n
The incident happened shortly before 11 a.m. at a St. Pete home in the 7200 block of 5th Street North.<\/p>\n
Dig deeper<\/p>\n
According to investigators, an officer was flagged down by a woman who said her adult stepson was experiencing a mental health crisis at a nearby home and she needed help.<\/p>\n
Police went to the home and knocked on the door to conduct a welfare check on the man, investigators said.<\/p>\n
The man went outside and began attacking the officers, according to PCSO.<\/p>\n
The officers defended themselves during the fight and eventually took the man to the ground, investigators said.<\/p>\n
Once the man was on the ground and in custody, officers discovered he was not breathing. They began life-saving measures, including CPR, until paramedics arrived.<\/p>\n
The man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead, PCSO said.<\/p>\n
Investigators said none of the force used by officers was intentional deadly force.<\/p>\n
One officer was also taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries suffered during the fight, according to investigators.<\/p>\n
Medical examiner autopsy review<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
It is not yet known why the man stopped breathing. Investigators said he had pre-existing medical conditions.<\/p>\n
The man’s cause of death is pending an autopsy, and the Medical Examiner’s Office will make the official determination.<\/p>\n
The sheriff’s office said the names of the officers involved will not be released until 72 hours after the incident because of Marsy’s Law, which took effect July 1.<\/p>\n
Death investigation<\/p>\n
What’s next<\/p>\n
An investigation into the circumstances surrounding the man’s death remains underway.<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
Information for this story was provided by the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief St. Petersburg police officers fought with a 48-year-old man in a mental health crisis who stopped…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2026,97219,50211,596,67350,8181,202,204,203,199,201,200,152481],"class_list":["post-379793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-investigators","tag-mental-health-crisis","tag-pcso","tag-pinellas-county","tag-pinellas-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-police-officers","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news","tag-use-of-force"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379793","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=379793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}