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The crash was the latest in an unsettling trend in the Tampa area in which wrong-way drivers have caused crashes, many of them fatal. In most of the cases, alcohol played a role, authorities said.
Read More →Police say Officer Rich Lehr and Officer Leigh Smith were serving the warrant around 2:39 a.m. when 35-year-old Walter Jeziorski fired several shots from the doorway.
Read More →Updates in the case this week included Morris' not-guilty plea, the charging of his accomplice who is trying to retrieve her vehicle from forfeiture, and the FBI's $20,000 reward for the murder weapon.
Read More →Police have detained Cortnee' Nicole Brantley, 22, to determine the location of passenger Dontae Rashawn Morris, 24. Morris is now wanted on two counts of first-degree murder and one count of being a felon in possession of a firearm.
Read More →Tampa, Fla., police stopped an oncoming train moments before it struck a dog that was tied to the tracks and had been shot three times.
Read More →A person identified only as an associate of Morris helped arrange the surrender. The associate then brought Morris to a pre-determined location, where police were waiting to take him into custody.
Read More →According to police, officers stopped a bicyclist around 1 a.m. near the corner of N Central and E Floribraska Avenues when the suspects fled and at least one of them fired shots at an officer who was pursuing them.
Read More →Investigators for hours questioned and then released the driver, 22-year-old Cortnee Nicole Brantley, with no charges Tuesday night. The shooting suspect — identified as Dontae Rashawn Morris, a 24-year-old felon with a lengthy rap sheet — remained on the loose early this morning.
Read More →The man wanted in the shooting deaths of two police officers also is a suspect in a third homicide and is a "person of interest" in two more homicides, Tampa police Chief Jane Castor said Thursday.
Read More →The Tampa Police Department faced the wrath of anti-Trump Twitter followers after the agency's official Twitter account retweeted a post from Brad Parscale—President Trump's 2020 campaign manager—saying "#FourMoreYears" in response to actor Jon Voight's video praising the president.
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