Florida prosecutors have charged a Tampa man with second degree murder and a hate crime enhancement for the shooting death of a gay man at a dog park last month. Gerald Declan Radford, 65, called 911 and said he had shot 52-year-old John Walter Lay on February 2 at West Dog Park. First responders tried …
A Tampa man admitted to shooting his mother and teenage daughter and killing his mother’s friend after allegedly trying to force the 17-year-old “into a relationship with him.” Michael Monroe Banks, 42, also fired at a Tampa police officer before surrendering, according to the Tampa Bay Times. Court documents say Banks told police he wrote …
A 14-year-old boy and a 22-year-old are dead and 18 hospitalized after shooting erupted during a fight between two groups of people in the midst of Halloween celebrations on the streets of Tampa, Florida, early Sunday. The deadly incident happened just before 3 a.m. near bars and clubs in the city’s Ybor Cty neighborhood, Tampa …
A former federal prosecutor has been charged in a bizarre road rage incident on a Florida bridge earlier this week. The Florida Highway Patrol said the incident snarled traffic on the Howard Frankland Bridge between Tampa and St. Petersburg for nearly three hours Tuesday morning, NBC News reported. Patrick Douglas Scruggs, 39, has been charged …
A former college chemistry graduate student has been arrested and charged with multiple counts of battery and possession of a controlled substance after a surveillance camera caught him apparently injecting an substance into the doorframe of his neighbor’s apartment. Umar Abdullah told WTVT that Xuming Li, who lived below him and his family, began complaining …
A 7-year-old Florida boy was shot and killed when two groups of people got into an argument over jet skis and resorted to gun violence. Tampa Police said they were called to a boat ramp near the Courtney Campbell Causeway shortly after 8:30 p.m. Tuesday after one group got angry because they felt the other …
A Florida man ended an argument with another man over the weekend by pouring gasoline over the other man and lighting him on fire. The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office said Earl Hargrove Jr. and another man got into a verbal dispute at a Mobil gas station in Tampa, Fox News reported. With the dispute seemingly …
A Florida man has been arrested and charged with two robberies last week, one that included the kidnapping and rape of a Door Dash driver. Tampa Police said that Joseph Killins, 38, forced the Door Dash driver, in her 20s, back into her car as she was making a delivery at the Residence Inn just …
Security guards at a Tampa strip club took down a man early Sunday morning wearing a red and black devil mask and carrying a loaded handgun and carrying spare magazines before he could enter the club. Surveillance video shows the man, identified as 44-year-old Michael Rudman, stroll purposefully toward the front door of Mons Venus …
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 …
Florida police on Saturday arrested a 21-year-old man for allegedly shooting at a homeless family as they slept in their vehicle on a Tampa street. Christopher Stamat Jr. is accused of firing more than a dozen shots at the family vehicle at about 4:30 a.m. on Wednesday, striking the pregnant mother, in her 20s, in …
