Release posted on 04-12-23 ar 1:53 p.m.

Jermaine Adrian Bennett (DOB 01/19/1996) and Savonne Morrison (DOB 09/10/2004) have been charged with beating a 79-year-old man with a tire iron on 22nd Avenue North on October 20, 2022.

Bennett and Morrison both face one count of attempted murder in the first degree for the attack. Both men were already in the Pinellas County Jail facing charges for a fatal attack that occurred in Clearwater that same evening.

Shortly before midnight Oct. 20, St. Petersburg police responded to the 2400 block of 22nd Avenue North to investigate a call about an attack on a person over age 65. When officers arrived, they found the 79-year-old victim with multiple cuts and lacerations.

The injuries occurred when two men in a car stopped the victim as he was walking along eastbound 22nd Avenue North. One of the men who got out of the vehicle struck the victim numerous times with a tire iron before both men returned to the car and drove away.

The victim was taken to the hospital for treatment of non-life threatening injuries.

Arrest affidavits