Officer-Involved Shooting Investigated In St. Pete: Pinellas Sheriff

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — An officer-involved shooting is under investigation in St. Petersburg following a fatal shooting of a suspect early Monday morning, according to a Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office news release.

Just after 3 a.m., St. Petersburg police officers responded to reports of an armed person at a home on 20th Avenue N.

Jill Kiley, 53, called St. Pete police to report that her 31-year-old son, Cody Kiley, found her gun and was threatening her with it, Chief Deputy Paul Halle said during a news conference at the scene.

She took the suspect’s 4-year-old daughter — who is also her granddaughter — into a back bathroom and remained on the phone with police, providing updates about the situation until they arrived four minutes later, Halle said.

By the time they got to the home, officers could hear Cody Kiley in the backyard. As they moved into the yard, K9 Officer Stephen York released his K9 partner, Loki, who confronted the armed suspect, the chief deputy said.

Kiley refused to drop the gun and continued to threaten those at the scene after York pulled Loki off him, according to Halle. York “fired a number of shots” at the suspect, who was killed, Halle said.

The shooting is being investigated by detectives with the Pinellas County Use of Deadly Force Investigative Task Force, which formed in 2020.

York, who was hired by the St. Petersburg Police Department in 2017, is on routine administrative leave during the investigation.

“The officer is fine. The dog is fine,” Chief Anthony Holloway with SPPD said during the news conference.

The police department will take over the investigation when PCSO is done with its criminal investigation into the shooting, he added.