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Crime
Police Search For Motive, Suspect In
Police Search For Convenience Store Robber
Sulphur Springs Drive-By Shooting
Tampa Police are search- ing for a suspect in the rob- bery of a Tampa convenience store early Wednesday morn- ing.
Police said the man, wear- ing a gray jacket with his face
covered, entered the 7-11 Store at 2320 West Waters Avenue at 2:30 a. m. and de- manded money before run- ning away.
Police did not release a description of the suspect.
Early Monday, Tampa Police detectives were talking to the teenage victim of a drive-by shooting that oc- curred last Saturday in Sul- phur Springs.
The shooting occurred at 10:45 p. m. on the corner of 14th Street and Humphrey. Police said a dark-colored sedan with dark-tinted win- dows pulled up to a group of
young people standing on the corner and fired three shots into the group.
Jackie Parker, 16, was hit in the lower body. Au- thorities said her wound was not life threatening.
The shooting is the latest in what has become a series of shootings in East Tampa that has both wounded and killed teenagers. In each inci-
dent, no arrests have been made, and witnesses are not talking to police.
Detectives have not been able to establish a motive for the shooting and don’t know if Parker was the intended target.
They also said they can’t say at this time if this shoot- ing is connected to the oth- ers.
Suspect Sought In Gas Station Robbery
Man Subject Of SWAT Standoff Arrested
BILLY DEE LEWIS
Tampa Police reported that at 6:30 a. m. Tuesday, Delkisha Thomas, 33, left home in her vehicle and she was followed by Billy Dee Lewis in his vehicle.
Police said Lewis, 34, al- legedly rammed Thomas’s vehicle several times in the area of 10th Street and North Bay Street. When Thomas said she was calling police, Lewis left the scene.
Based on text messages Lewis sent to Thomas, po- lice believed Thomas was in
Scene of police standoff.
a home on 26th Avenue with his 10-year-old son and had access to a handgun. He al- legedly said he didn’t want to harm his son, but that he wasn’t going back to prison.
Officers established a perimeter of the home and evacuated homes near the residence. SWAT and nego- tiators arrived on the scene.
After working with family members, the child was found at a friend’s house, and police said he was at the home at the time Thomas
left. It is not clear when the child left the home.
After it was discovered the child was not inside the residence on 26th Avenue, SWAT officers entered the home and Lewis was not there.
On Wednesday, Lewis was arrested without inci- dent by police and U. S. Mar- shals at a home in the 1600 block of 33rd Avenue. Police knocked on the door, and Lewis reportedly surren- dered peacefully.
Deputies in Pasco County said a man appeared to be armed with a shotgun when he entered the Citgo Station, 18901 State Road 52 on Wednesday around 5 a. m.
Deputies said the man pointed the gun at a clerk
and left with cash.
The suspect was last seen
wearing a dark-colored hoodie, dark jeans, dark-col- ored mask, white and black shoes, and appeared to be wearing blue latex surgical gloves.
Uncle Sandy
Man Arrested For Deadly Sarasota Shooting
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SARASOTA - A Sarasota man has been arrested and charged in the fatal shooting of two people last night.
Ronald E. Howard, 64, has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Carlos Suarez Jr., 83, and Johnny Campbell, 65, ac- cording to a news release from the Sarasota Police De- partment.
Howard and the victims were neighbors and knew each other for some time, po- lice report. They had had a dispute earlier in the day, ac- cording to police.
A shooting in a residential neighborhood east of Booker High School left two men dead Monday evening, Sara- sota Police have reported.
Officers responded to the home of one of the victims in the 1700 block of 33rd Street at about 5:30 p.m., police spokeswoman Genevieve Judge said. One man died at
Ronald E. Howard, 64, has been charged in the fatal shooting of two Sarasota men on June 15, 2015. (Pro- vided by Sarasota Police De- partment)
the scene, and the other died at Sarasota Memorial Hospi- tal, she said.
In the minutes that fol- lowed the shooting, more than 100 adults and children gathered outside the yellow crime- scene tape that en- gulfed the block-long investi- gation area. More than 10 squad cars lined 33rd Street
between Goodrich and Os- prey avenues.
Although the men’s identi- ties were not immediately re- leased, some of the people gathered said they knew them.
Among them was Yolanda Charles, 50, who said both of the men worked for a local landscaping busi- ness. She said the shooting occurred at a home that be- longed to one of the men, and both men were friends.
“They don’t bother no- body,” Charles said while holding a child. “They sit every day on (his) porch. He had probably just come home from work.”
Neighborhood resident Craig Rabideau, 45, said he was at a nearby food bank when he heard the shooting.
“I thought it was fireworks until the cops showed up,” he said. “It sounded like fire- crackers: ‘Blam. Blam. Blam’.”
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