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Crime
Plant City Man Gunned Down Outside Seffner Bar
Man Seen In
Arrest Made In Teen’s Shooting
Hillsborough County Sher- iff’s Office detectives are inves- tigating the reported shooting of a man outside a bar in Seffner.
At 1:27 a. m. Sunday, detec- tives said Michael Richard- son, 24, was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Hookah Bar Smoke Shop, 1430 Kingsway Road.
No suspect or motive has been established for the shoot- ing, and detectives said they do not believe the shooting was a random act.
The investigation is continu- ing and more information will be released later.
Shooting
MICHAEL RICHARDSON .....shot to death outside Seffner bar.
Hillsborough County Sheriff’s detectives report that they be- lieve a man seen in a store sur- veillance video may have information about a recent rob- bery and shooting in Seffner.
Last Tuesday at 4 a.m., a 35- year-old man was wounded out- side his home on the 1600 block of North Taylor Road after two robbers loaded the man’s ATV into a truck and fled. The rob- bers reportedly used a handgun, detectives said.
The surveillance photo shows a white male making a purchase at convenience store. Detectives are asking the public for help in identifying the man.
One of the suspects in the ATV theft is described as a Black male, 6-feet tall with a muscular build. Authorities had no de- scription of the second suspect.
Trio Gang Members Indicted For Rape And Murder Of Girl, 16
BALTIMORE, MD -- Three men have been indicted in the brutal sexual assault and slaying of a teenage girl whose body was discovered inside a Baltimore home that had been intention- ally set on fire.
Adonay Dixon, 23, John Childs, 20, and Raeshawn Rivers, 14, were indicted Tues- day on first-degree murder, first-degree rape, arson, kidnap- ping, and other charges stem- ming from the death of 16-year-old Arnesha Bowers, a junior at Baltimore City Col- lege high school.
If convicted, they could face life in prison.
Police said the killing was part of a gang initiation. Detec- tives previously said that Dixon and Childs are Bloods mem- bers, The Baltimore Sun re- ports.
Bowers' body was discov- ered June 7 inside her grand- mother's home, which investigators say was set on fire in an attempt to conceal the crimes.
According to authorities, the men broke into the home Bow- ers shared with her grand- mother in northeast Baltimore, sexually assaulted Bowers and then strangled her with an elec- trical cord before stealing elec- tronics and setting the house ablaze.
Authorities said Bowers knew her attackers. She had been hanging out with them just hours before the crime, WBAL- TV reports.
Bowers' grandmother took her home and left for an overnight shift of work at a hos- pital.
Police say Childs followed them home and, after learning where Bowers lived, returned with Dixon.
The three robbed the home, stealing $500 worth of valu- ables, WBAL-TV reports.
LAMENZO BURNETT, JR. .....shot in the head.
St. Petersburg Police re- ported that on Sunday, a 16- year-old male was arrested after he reportedly shot a 17- year-old male in the head Sat- urday night.
Dayshawn Hopkins
turned himself in Sunday night in the shooting of Lamenzo Burnett, Jr. around 7 p.m. at 2011 Queens-
DAYSHAWN HOPKINS .....arrested and charged in the shooting.
boro Avenue, South.
Officers responded to the
shooting at 6:54 p. m. and found Burnett with a gunshot wound to the head. He was hospitalized and is reported to be in critical condition.
No motive for the shooting has been identified by detec- tives at this time.
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Information On
One Person Shot During Robbery At Public Housing Complex
Convicted Felon Facing Drug, Weapons Charges
Tampa Police are investigat- ing a shooting that occurred at the Robles Park Pubic Hous- ing Complex Saturday morn- ing.
Police said at 2:30 a.m., two men and a woman were out- side of 314 East Woodlawn try- ing to enter a party they weren’t invited to.
Police said as the trio waited to be picked up, they were ap- proached by two men on bicy- cles, one armed with a handgun.
The gunman reportedly pointed the gun at the trio and demanded their property. One of the victims ran, several shots were fired and he was struck in the leg.
The wounded man, identi- fied as Joseph Moreno, Jr.,
JOSEPH MORENO, JR. .....shot in leg during robbery.
44, was hospitalized with non- life threatening injuries. The other two, who live in Riverview, were not injured.
The suspects in the shooting are described as Black males in their 20s, both last seen wear- ing dark clothing.
Hillsborough County Sher- iff’s deputies said an 8-time convicted felon was arrested last Thursday on drugs and weapons charges.
Detectives served a search warrant at 814 123rd Avenue and arrested Ralph Hale, 42, on outstanding warrants for trafficking in cocaine and de- livery and possession of co- caine.
During the search of the home, detectives said they found two handguns, 42 grams of cocaine, a small amount of marijuana and mis- cellaneous drug parapherna- lia.
Hale was also charged with trafficking in cocaine, being a felon in possession of a firearm, possession of mari-
RALPH HALE
juana and possession of para- phernalia.
Hale had previous convic- tions for aggravated battery with a firearm causing great bodily harm, felon in posses- sion of a firearm and several drug convictions.
Marijuana Plants Found During House Fire
These are some of the marijuana plants that were found in a burning house at 1414 East Annie Street Sunday, about 10 blocks from the Tampa Police Department District II Headquarters.
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On Sunday evening, Tampa Fire Rescue received a call at 5 p.m. about a house fire at East Annie and North 15th Street.
When firefighters entered the house, they found 100 ma- ture marijuana plants instead of furniture.
Damage to the home was es- timated to be $40,000.
Tampa Fire Rescue spokesperson, Jason Penny said a call came in originally to their office as a downed power line.
“When our units arrived,
they found a power line had been extended from a pole to the house illegally. That power line came into contact with a chain link fence and that sparked the fire.”
Penny said the fire is being called arson, and they, along with Tampa Police, are trying to determine whose grow house it was.
No one was living in the home at the time of the fire, and the investigation is con- tinuing by arson officials and criminal detectives.
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