Hank Earl Carr's rampage started with the killing of a child, then escalated. The worst day for police in Tampa Bay history happened 10 years ago. It began in an old apartment with no telephone, as the rising sun warmed Sulphur Springs, when a fugitive with a fake name shot his girlfriend's son in the face.
Former deputy recalls chasing killer
Flying up the highway at 100 miles per hour, the killer turned and leveled an angry, scary, teeth-clenched stare out his back window, then raised his right fist and shot a bird at his pursuer. The deputy shot one back. "That was my introduction," recalled Jim Campbell, "to Hank Earl Carr."
For three daughters, Carr killed more than a cop
They were sisters who lost their father in a rampage even strangers remember, when a man named Hank Earl Carr fatally shot the Tampa police detective they knew as Dad.