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Community Help Needed To Solve Shooting Incidents
Teams Take To Court For Region Semi-Finals
The Region Semi-Finals for area bas- ketball teams will be held Tuesday evening, February 17, 2015. Game time is 7 p. m. for all teams.
Hillsborough County schools moving
to the next level are: St. Petersburg will
travel to Wharton High School for the 8A-
2 matchup; East Bay goes to Freedom for
the 7A-2 match-up; Jefferson will travel
to Mitchell in New Port Richey in the 6A-
3 match-up. In the 5A-3 matchup, Jesuit
will go over to St. Petersburg Gibbs;
Tampa Catholic goes to Berkeley Prep for
the 4A-3 match-up; and Seffner Christian will travel to Tampa Prep for the 3A-2 matchup.
COACH ERIC HAYES ...Jefferson High School
LYFE COLEMAN
JAMES BRADFORD
CHRISTOPHER REDDICK
LETERRANCE GOGGINS
MICAELA CARTER
MELVIN HAMILTON
JOSHUA RICKS
ROMELLO WELLS
ADRIAN POWELL
REGINALD HIGHTOWER
A series of shooting inci- dents since the first of the year has left three people dead, and no one arrested for any of the incidents.
Tampa Police are asking the public for help in getting the dangerous people off the street responsible for these violent crimes.
On January 5th, 18-year- old Lyfe Coleman was found shot in the front yard of his home. He died later at an area hospital.
On January 14th, James Bradford was shot to death as he sat in his car at 50th Street and Terrace Vil- lage Circle. An arrest was made in that shooting.
On January 18th,
Christopher Reddick
was found shot to death at his home on Greenwood
Street.
On January 19th, Letter-
rance Goggins, 24, was found shot to death next to the Open Air Market on 29th Street and 29th Avenue. He was the first person shot in what turned out to be a se- ries of four shootings in less than a week in that area.
On January 20th, there was a shooting at Lake Av- enue and 28th Street where a young lady, Micaela Carter was wounded.
On January 22nd, there was a shooting at 29th Street and 33rd Avenue. That vic- tim’s name was not re- leased.
On February 2nd, Melvin Hamilton, Joshua Ricks, and Romello Wells were wounded in a drive-by shooting as they stood in
front of a convenience store on 29th Street and 24th Av- enue.
On February 5th, a young man, Adrian Powell, was found shot at 22nd Street and 27th Avenue.
On February 9th, Regi- nald Hightower was found shot to death at the Columbus Court Apart- ments in West Tampa.
Authorities said they have increased their pres- ence in the areas where the shootings have occurred, and without the cooperation of the community, it’s been difficult to identify and/or arrest suspects in the shoot- ings.
If anyone has informa- tion on any of these inci- dents, they are asked to call (813) 231-6130.
Hillsborough County Schools Get Laptops
This cart filled with laptops is being unloaded at Strawberry Crest High School.
On Thursday, thousands of new laptop computers arrived at 128 Hillsborough district schools, thanks to a $1.7 mil- lion grant to upgrade technol- ogy in classrooms.
The computers, all Hewlett-Packard brand, have 15-inch screens and came in on charging carts with the wire-
less infrastructure needed to make them work.
On Thursday, the cam- puses who got the computers were elementary schools Edi- son, Ippolito, Morgan Woods, Roosevelt and Ruskin, as well as Turner/Bartels K-8, Jen- nings Middle and Strawberry Crest High.
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