Victim in St. Pete shopping center death was kicked for 79 minutes, police say

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ST. PETERSBURG — When police found Scott Jenks’ body on the early morning of Jan. 14, laid out in a shopping center’s parking lot, they didn’t immediately know how he died.

But looking at the scene, they could tell he had been brutally attacked.

Indeed, detectives would soon find surveillance video from a nearby business that showed Jenks’ assailant kicked him for an hour and 19 minutes — during which Jenks pleaded with him to stop.

The particularly violent attack is outlined in an arrest affidavit filed this week against Kristoff King, 36, who was arrested in Alachua County two days after Jenks’ murder. King was extradited to Pinellas County and booked into the county jail on a first-degree murder charge this week.