Police: Beating victim dies at St. Petersburg hospital
ST. PETERSBURG — A man claiming to have been severely beaten by two women last week succumbed to his injuries over the weekend, police said.
William Hobson was found at his residence at the Banyan Tree Motel, 610 Fourth St. N, on Tuesday. He told police a man attacked him the night before but not much else.
"We didn’t know if he just didn’t want to talk to us, or if his injuries were so severe he couldn’t," said police spokesman George Kajtsa.
Hobson, 61, suffered facial fractures and bleeding of the brain in the attack, police said. He was taken to Bayfront Medical Center, where he died Saturday.
Police are now investigating the incident as a homicide.
Casey Cora, Times staff writer