A 14-year-old Florida boy was arrested Saturday after he allegedly shot and killed his mother, shot her boyfriend five times, and tried to shoot his older brother. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said his office received calls about a shooting at about the same time Saturday after that they received calls about a boy running …
A Florida mother charged last month with child abuse has now been charged with her 2-ear-old son’s murder. Rebecca Louise Gussage-Johnston, 24, was initially arrested on May 19 after the toddler died from injuries he suffered a day before, when Gussage-Johnston admitted to “punishing” the boy because he was “acting out,” WESH reported. After the …
It was like an Old West saloon fight, except it was outside a modern day Tampa apartment complex early Sunday morning at a New Year’s party. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office says Plasido Castro Bibiano, 37, was at the party when he got into an altercation with another man. At some point in the course …
A 25-year-old man has been arrested in the death of a 1-month-old baby he was caring for while the child’s mother, a family member, was working. Cortavius Thompson has been charged with first degree murder while engaged in child abuse, according to the Tampa Bay Times. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said it was called …
A Florida father is being held on a $2.5 million bond after he allegedly shot his 5-year-old daughter to death and critically injured his 8-year-old son. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said that Jermaine Lavanda Bass, 30, shot Jaylah and Jermaine Bass Monday night just moments after their mother kissed them goodnight. “So she kisses …
A Florida woman recognized a potential kidnapping situation on a FishHawk street on Sunday and intervened, leading to the arrest of a 37-year-old man. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said David Daniels approached two elementary school children in the town’s park square and told them he was going to supervise their walk home. As they …
Florida deputies arrested an 18-year-old man after he posted a photo of himself online with guns, a tactical vest, and the message, “Hey Siri, directions to the nearest school.” The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said the handgun and rifle seen in Corey Anderson’s photo were low power “airsoft guns.” Law enforcement, however, are not playing …
A 15-year-old Florida boy has been charged with vehicular homicide in a car crash last month that left a 44-year-old woman dead. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said that Calvin Sanford is being charged as an adult in the case. He was the driver of a stolen Nissan Frontier that fled from a traffic stop …
Autopsy results released four months after a 15-month-old Florida girl’s death reveal she died from fentanyl poising, and investigators are now trying to figure out how the deadly drug got into the baby’s home. Ivy White’s father, 32-year-old Kaleb White, left for work at 10 p.m. on October 4, 2021, leaving hte baby girl in …
A 13-month-old baby was sleeping in the back seat of an SUV Tuesday afternoon when a man jumped into the running vehicle and drove off, prompting a desperate search and a statewide AMBER Alert, Fox 13 reports. Two-and-a-half hours later, Florida deputies found the Volkswagen Tiguan abandoned in the parking lot of St. Andrews Methodist …
Florida sheriff’s deputies arrested two teenage siblings this week for fatally shooting a man they tried to rob. Henry McGall IV, 18, and his younger sister, Madison, 15, have both been charged with first degree murder while engaged in robbery and robbery with a firearm resulting in death, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. The …
