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TAMPA — Tampa police are conducting a homicide investigation after finding a man dead in a car Sunday morning.
Officers were dispatched to Lazy River Drive and East Regnas Avenue, in the city’s Temple Crest neighborhood, at 4:46 a.m. to the report of a “suspicious vehicle.”
Upon arrival, police found a car with dark tinted windows running in the roadway with the lights off, according to a news release.
“When they opened the car door, they located a deceased Black male with upper body trauma,” according to the release.
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