A 25-year-old Florida man has been arrested for intentionally setting a fire that killed four people and three dogs in the early morning hours of Wednesday. Shawn Gossett has been charged with four counts of first degree murder, three counts of cruelty to animals, and a single county of arson, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office …
A 19-year-old Florida man, whose guns had been taken from him because he was deemed “mentally unfit,” somehow managed to get another gun Saturday night and use it to murder his mother and father. Christos Alexander Themelis also wounded a Hillsborough County deputy during an exchange of gunfire — and was shot himself — before …
A Florida woman has been arrested after she allegedly gave a relative a baby bottle of bleach to feed her 13-month-old daughter. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said it began a lengthy investigation on January 2 when the relative reported the incident. The relative found 22-year-old Melissa Barnes and the baby living in a shed …
Frantic family members called Florida deputies Monday afternoon after a 5-year-old girl with autism wandered away from her Tampa home. Within an hour, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office Aviation Unit located the girl with a thermal imaging camera. She was in a heavily wooded area with wetlands. The aviation crew kept the girl in view …
A Florida mom was seen on video she recorded encouraging one of her children to beat a child under 5 with a belt, laughing and telling the child to “hit harder, baby” and “beat the crap out of the sly devil.” Hillsborough County Sheriff’s deputies made the discovery when they searched Karyn S. Parrish’s cell …
A Florida man has been charged with shooting his mother to death as she celebrated her 78th birthday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Joanne Turrell’s body was found by a neighbor who checked on her at the request of Turrell’s daughter. The neighbor found the woman, covered in a blanket, and called 911. Deputies …
A Florida police dog found a missing 11-year-old girl Friday night, trapped in a locked park bathroom in Hillsborough County. The girl was reported missing just before 8 p.m. Friday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said. Deputy Sarah Ernstes and K9 Mary Lu tracked her to a neighbor’s house, where residents reported they gave her …
The “disgruntled” ex-husband of a Florida school teacher shot and killed himself in front of the rear entrance to Farnell Middle School as dozens of students were arriving for an early start program. Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said that two students a few feet behind 52-year-old Jason Layman saw the shooting. “They didn’t panic, …
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 …
