St. Pete police found the man bleeding and lying in the road with his dog, a medium-sized pit bull-mix, on a leash.<\/p>\n
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. \u2014 St. Pete police say a man died after he was found bleeding and lying in the road Wednesday night with his dog on a leash next to him.<\/p>\n
According to the St. Petersburg Police Department, the incident happened at 8:17 p.m. Wednesday on Quincy Street South near 26th Avenue South.<\/p>\n
Officers arrived to find a 52-year-old man, who appeared to be seriously injured, unresponsive in the roadway.<\/p>\n
Investigators say a pit bull-mix dog, which they learned belonged to the man, was with him on a leash. The dog, according to police, “would not allow rescue workers to approach the victim.”<\/p>\n
Police say the dog became agitated and began to bite the man, which is when an officer shot and killed the dog.<\/p>\n
The man was already dead when rescue workers were able to get to him. In an update, police said preliminary autopsy reports indicate that the man suffered life-threatening dog bites to the neck and shoulder.\u00a0<\/p>\n
There were no other indications of foul play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"St. Pete police found the man bleeding and lying in the road with his dog, a medium-sized pit…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-429211","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\/429211","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=429211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}