Page 33 - Florida Sentinel 6-28-19

Crime
Teenager Arrested For Murder Of 14-Year-Old
Mom Accused Of Killing Daughter Ruled Competent
A 16-year-old was ar- rested Tuesday evening. He was charged with the murder of a 14-year-old girl hit by gunfire while riding in a car.
According to the Hillsbor- ough County Sheriff’s Office, Dereck Polanco Rivera was arrested at his home. He has been charged with sec- ond-degree murder and throwing a deadly missile at, within, or into a vehicle.
During the early morning hours of June 20th, a 14-year- old was riding in the back of a vehicle. An adult was driving and tw0 other teenagers were in the car.
Police said when the car reached the intersection of Kingsway Road and East Clay Avenue, someone opened fire and shot at the vehicle several times.
The adult female driver went to the Walgreens, 128 E. Brandon Blvd., and called 9- 1-1. When deputies arrived, they discovered a bullet had struck the 14-year-old in the back of the head.
She was transported to Brandon Hospital, and later airlifted to Tampa General
DINORAH RODRIGUEZ
Hospital, where she was listed in “very critical condi- tion.” Identified on social media through a gofundme page, the teenager, identified as Dinorah Rodriguez, died the following day.
During the investigation, detectives learned that the occupants in the car had at- tended a house party in Val- rico.
Police said a male occu- pant in the car had a “long standing beef” with Dereck Rivera. Rivera is alleged to have targeted the vehicle after it left the party and fired
DERECK PLANCO RIVERA
several shots at it.
It has not been deter-
mined what the beef was about. However, Rodriguez was not the intended target, police said.
According to police, Rivera is a certified member with the “TC Boys,” a gang operating in the Town N’ Country area. The shooting is not believed to be gang-re- lated.
The Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office will re- view the case and determine if Rivera will be charged as an adult.
SHAKAYLA DENSON
Nearly a year ago, a Tampa woman was arrested for drowning her daughter in the Hillsborough River. After sev- eral months, a judge has ruled that she is now competent to stand trial.
It was determined that Ms. Shakayla Denson, was incompetent after her arrest last August. She was charged with first-degree murder after she allegedly drowned her daughter in the Hillsborough River.
According to police, on August 2, 2018, Ms. Denson waded into the Hillsborough River with her 4-year-old daughter, Je’hyrah
JE’HYRAH DANIELS
Daniels. She is accused of throwing her only child into the river. The child died be- fore she could be rescued.
Tampa Police responded to the Hillsborough River near Rome Avenue and N. Aileen Street in reference to a child being thrown into the river.
The Tampa Police Depart- ment’s Dive Team responded and recovered the child’s un- conscious body submerged about 75 feet off shore. She was rushed to a local hospital, where she was pronounced dead at 4:49 p.m.
Police quickly located Ms. Denson, 26, walking nearby and took her into custody.
Man Charged In Fatal Hit And Run
More Than
Man Gets Life Sentence In Fatal Stabbing
JAMES WARE
... Gets life sentence
with first-degree murder.
Judge Michelle Sisco sentenced Ware to life in prison without the possibility of parole. Ware, who is a convicted sex offender, was living with Ms. Cogman at the time of the murder.
After the murder, he al- legedly took money from her purse and returned to the home several times to see if her body had been discovered, court records showed.
Ware had previously served 22 years in prison on other charges.
Police have arrested a 19- year-old man and charged him with vehicular homicide and leaving the scene of an ac- cident. The accident took place around 4 p.m., Wednes- day.
According to the St. Pe- tersburg Police Department, Anthony Seafus was driving a 2007 Mercedes sedan west- bound on Central Avenue. He is alleged to have struck a ve- hicle at 49th Street and drove away at a high rate of speed.
Seafus is said to have con- tinued and ran a red light at Central Avenue and 58th Street. A Hyundai Sonata, traveling southbound on 58th Street, reportedly struck the Mercedes. The Mercedes then
Fireworks
$6,000 In
Stolen
ANTHONY SEAFUS
hit a woman who was in the crosswalk. She died at the scene of the accident.
No one else received any serious injuries. The investi- gation is continuing, police said.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the theft of fireworks. The inci- dent took place around 3 a.m., Thursday, June 27th.
According to police, an un- known suspect entered the northeast entrance of the TNT Fireworks Tent, in the 8000 block of W. Hillsborough Av- enue. The suspect grabbed ap- proximately $6,318 in fireworks and fled the scene in a dark sedan. The theft was ob- served by a witness, police said.
No additional information was available at press time.
MS. DENISE ALBURY COGMAN
Earlier this week, a Hills- borough Circuit judge sen- tenced a man to life in prison. He was convicted of stabbing his girlfriend to death four years ago.
James Ware, 60, was ar- rested the day after the body of Ms. Denise Albury Cog- man was discovered in her West Tampa home on April 6, 2015.
Her family had reported her missing.
Ware was arrested the following day with Ms. Cog- mon’s car. He was charged
UNCLE SANDY
You must first be who you really are, 9, 17, 23, 39, 53 then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want 4, 20, 36, 48, 62.
FRIDAY, JUNE 28, 2019 FLORIDA SENTINEL BULLETIN PUBLISHED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY PAGE 23-A