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Tampa Police Investigate After Man Found Dead In Driveway
Settles With 20 Of
24 Women Who
Tampa police are inves- tigating after finding a dead man in a N 53rd Street driveway Saturday night.
Officers were dispatched to the area after a phone call.
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TPD says they found a dead man laying in a drive- way next to a dark-colored pick-up truck.
There was also a second car found left running and
abandoned on the east side of the street, police report. It was later determined to be a stolen car.
The investigation is con- tinuing.
Accused Him Of
Sexual Misconduct
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Deshaun Watson
agreed to a confidential set- tlement with 20 of his 24 sex- ual misconduct accusers, an attorney for the women said Tuesday.
The Cleveland Browns quarterback faced a number of accusations in multiple lawsuits about sexual mis- conduct with massage thera- pists. He was cleared of criminal wrongdoing by two Texas grand juries as the suits were filed in the state.
"Today I announce that all cases against Deshaun Watson, with the exception of four, have settled," Tony Buzbee said in a statement. "We are working through the paperwork related to those settlements. Once we have done so, those particular cases will be dismissed. The terms and amounts of the set- tlements are confidential. We won’t comment further on the settlements or those cases."
Watson has repeatedly denied the allegations, which ranged from masturbating in
Nipsey Hussle's Last Moments Detailed As Murder Trial Opens
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front the women, ejaculating on women and situating him- self during the massage to make the masseuse touch his groin area. According to a New York Times report, Watson had booked time with 66 massage therapists over a 17-month span.
He told reporters last week he was still in the process of clearing his name. He again reiterated to re- porters he never "forced" or "assaulted" anyone. Watson' attorney stated each thera- pists took a payoff of a $100,000.
Rapper Nipsey Hussle was gunned down outside his clothing shop in a calculated, premeditated fashion by a man upset over a discussion about snitching, a prosecutor told jurors Wednesday at the outset of a long-delayed mur- der trial.
Deputy District Attorney John McKinney said dur- ing his opening statement that there's “no doubt” Eric R. Holder knew in advance that he would kill Hussle. The prosecutor described the sequence of events, including the talk about “snitching,” be- fore Hussle's shooting death three years ago in the South Los Angeles neighborhood where both men grew up and the rapper was helping revi- talize. Two others were wounded in the shooting.
In addition to shooting Hussle at least 10 times, Holder kicked the rapper in the head before fleeing, McKinney told the jury as- sembled in a downtown Los Angeles courtroom.
“He clearly thought about what he was going to do be- fore he did it,” McKinney told jurors about Holder's intentions.
Holder, 32, faces one count of first degree-murder and two counts of attempted first-degree murder.
Hussle, a hip-hop artist, father of two, and widely beloved South LA local born Ermias Asghedom, was shot and killed at age 33 on March 31, 2019, in the park- ing lot outside his store, known as The Marathon.
McKinney said Holder and Hussle knew each other, growing up in the same
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neighborhood where they were members of the same gang, the Rollin’ 60s.
In his opening statement, McKinney showed jurors videos and photos of the shooting and its aftermath. Images showed the shooting and Holder fleeing the scene, wearing a red shirt and bandana while carrying a semiautomatic gun and a re- volver. After a two-day man- hunt, Holder was arrested, and two months later he was indicted by a grand jury.
McKinney said the shooting stemmed from Hussle hearing that Holder was a snitch and needed to “clear that up.” Before the shooting, he said the rapper and his two friends were hav- ing a “cool conversation” with Holder. He said Hussle vis- ited the store without any se- curity.
Attorney Aaron Jansen has a formidable task in de- fending Holder, who could get life in prison if convicted. Multiple eyewitnesses who knew both Holder and Hus- sle told police and grand ju- rors that Holder walked up to Hussle and gunned him down.
Jansen has said that the
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killing of Hussle was not premeditated, and the shoot- ing of the other two men was not intended at all, making the first-degree murder and attempted murder charges excessive. He is also likely to make Holder’s mental health an issue.
On Wednesday, Jansen said Holder was triggered and didn’t have time to cool off before he gunned down Hussle, saying this is a case of “heated passion.” He ran up on Nipsey when he said to Holder, "You Got Me".
Another key witness ex- pected to testify is the woman McKnney said un- wittingly served as Holder’s getaway driver, Bryannita Nicholson.
Holder and Nicholson had stopped to get food near The Marathon. That led to a chance meeting and brief conversation between Holder and Hussle.
McKinney said that “moved Eric Holder to a point of wanting to return to the parking lot and kill Nipsey Hussle.”
McKinney said Holder told Nicholson “Drive be- fore I slap you,” following the shooting.
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