Suspect In Jail Faces Charges In Shooting Death: Police

ST. PETERSBURG, FL — A 21-year-old St. Petersburg suspect faces a second degree murder charge for the accused shooting death of a St. Petersburg mother April 4, St. Pete police said.

Several people were hanging out at Wildwood Park, 1000 28th St. S., St. Petersburg, that night, according to investigators. At about 10:50 p.m., Tyron Byron Jackasal, is accused of shooting a gun into the Wildwood parking lot area. A bullet hit Grot as she sat inside a car, according to detectives. Authorities do not suspect Grot was the intended victim.

Wednesday evening law enforcement officials charged him with second degree murder as he already had been booked in jail for a second degree murder charge for the accused killing of K'Mia Simmons, also a mother of two children, five days prior to Grot's manslaughter.

Simmons had been shot at 6:15 p.m. on 22nd Street South at 18th Avenue South March 30 as she sat in a dark-colored Volvo with her two children as their father drove.

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