{"id":397703,"date":"2026-09-12T06:58:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:58:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397703\/"},"modified":"2026-09-12T06:58:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T06:58:21","slug":"woman-accused-of-setting-fire-injuring-woman-at-st-petersburg-gas-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/397703\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman accused of setting fire, injuring woman at St. Petersburg gas station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>St. Pete police say the suspect and the victim did not know each other.<\/p>\n<p>ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 A woman is accused of lighting a fire near a gasoline pump that seriously injured another woman.<\/p>\n<p>St. Petersburg police say it happened around 8 p.m. Thursday at the Mobil gas station on 40th Avenue North.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, 41-year-old Eleanor Crawford walked up to a woman who was fueling her SUV and used a lighter to start a gasoline fire.<\/p>\n<p>Police say the SUV was engulfed in flames and the victim suffered second-degree burns. She was rushed to Tampa General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Officers arrested Crawford a couple of blocks away. She is charged with arson and attempted felony murder.<\/p>\n<p>Investigators say Crawford and the victim didn&#8217;t know each other. They&#8217;re still working to find a motive for the attack.<\/p>\n<p>            <img class=\"photo__main\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/cf2d3c57-9f35-42c5-b0ad-933bed2969c8_1140x641.jpg\"   alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Pete police say the suspect and the victim did not know each other. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397704,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-397703","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\/397703","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=397703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397704"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}