{"id":381579,"date":"2026-08-26T12:32:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381579\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T12:32:12","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T12:32:12","slug":"man-accused-of-killing-a-st-petersburg-mother-faces-pretrial-detention-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/381579\/","title":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing a St. Petersburg mother faces pretrial detention hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Man accused of killing a St. Petersburg mother faces pretrial detention hearing<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/news-team\/f6f40105-53d4-4912-8530-c953d9da6af5\" aria-label=\"Jackie Guenther profile page\" class=\"css-15eikfp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/f6f40105-53d4-4912-8530-c953d9da6af5_1757021699.jpg\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Jackie Guenther\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/a>HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"0\">Ladavion King, accused of killing 47-year-old Natasha Moses and causing a standoff that shut down I-75, is set to appear in court Wednesday for a pretrial detention hearing.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\">King is currently in Hillsborough County custody. Police said he was connected to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gulfcoastnewsnow.com\/article\/st-petersburg-i-75-standoff-suspect-first-court-appearance\/73262277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">deadly shooting of Natasha Moses<\/a>, a mother of four from St. Petersburg. According to investigators, King and Moses had been in a relationship for more than 5 years.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">After the shooting, police said King fled south on I-75. Troopers spotted him in Lee County and used a maneuver near Alico Road to stop his vehicle.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">This led to a standoff, during which troopers fired into King\u2019s truck. Law enforcement worked for hours before taking him into custody.  <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">Prosecutors filed a motion Saturday asking the judge to keep King in jail pending trial.   <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">DOWNLOAD\u202fthe free\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/qrco.de\/gcnapp\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gulf Coast News app<\/a>\u202ffor your latest news and alerts on breaking news, weather, sports, entertainment, and more on your phone or tablet. And check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verylocal.com\/wbbh-ft-myers\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Very Local Gulf Coast app<\/a> to stream news, entertainment and original programming on your TV<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Man accused of killing a St. Petersburg mother faces pretrial detention hearing HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 Ladavion King,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":371869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-381579","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381579","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=381579"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/381579\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/371869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=381579"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=381579"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=381579"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}