Tony Marrero

Prosecutors file murder charge against Ybor City shooting suspect

November 7, 2023 at 12:16 p.m.

Prosecutors have filed a formal charge against the suspect arrested in last month’s shooting in Ybor City that killed two and left 15 others wounded by gunfire. The Hillsborough State Attorney’s Office...

‘I got shot!’: Friends wounded in Ybor City shooting recall harrowing scene

November 4, 2023 at 7:37 a.m.

TAMPA — Seconds after gunshots rang out on Seventh Avenue, two friends lay bleeding on the concrete. Kila Ryker and Emily Perez had donned costumes and headed to Ybor City to celebrate Halloween. They’d come to love the...

A man awaiting execution on Florida’s death row for the 1977 murder of a Gainesville woman, and who become a published prison poet, died of a fentanyl overdose, records show.

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Florida death row inmate died of fentanyl overdose, report shows

September 19, 2023 at 12:00 p.m.

A man awaiting execution on Florida’s death row for the 1977 murder of a Gainesville woman, and who become a published prison poet, died of a fentanyl overdose, records show.

Officers in Tampa had to decide if they should take into custody a leader of one of the state’s largest law enforcement agencies.

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Cops made hard but right choice handling Miami police director’s marital dispute in Tampa, experts say

August 16, 2023 at 6:00 a.m.

Officers in Tampa had to decide if they should take into custody a leader of one of the state’s largest law enforcement agencies.

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