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Defense attorney Mark Eiglarsh speaks with his client, former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson, prior to opening statements in Peterson's trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday.
Wide disagreement reigns in trial of deputy accused of not stopping Parkland killer
Former Florida sheriff’s Deputy Scot Peterson is charged with failing to stop the school massacre five years ago.
Tampa Bay man arrested in fatal shooting in Hillsborough, deputies say
Hillsborough County authorities investigate a fatal shooting that happened in the 12100 block of Nebraska Avenue around 7 p.m. Friday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday night that suspect Joel Elkanah Jr., 25, has turned himself in to face a first-degree murder charge. The Sheriff's Office did not provide any identifying information about the person Elkanah is accused of shooting multiple times.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office announced the arrest of Joel Elkanah Jr. in a news release Tuesday night.
Sheriff probes self-defense claim of white woman who fatally shot Black neighbor in front of kids
A protester, holds a poster of Ajike Owens at the Marion County Courthouse, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Ocala, demanding the arrest of a woman who shot and killed Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four, last Friday night, June 2. Authorities came under intense pressure Tuesday to bring charges against a white woman who killed Owens, a Black neighbor, on her front doorstep, as they navigated Florida’s divisive stand your ground law that provides considerable leeway to the suspect in making a claim of self defense. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
About three dozen protesters gathered outside the Marion County courthouse to demand the shooter’s arrest in the divisive stand your ground case.
Man who entered alligator enclosure at Busch Gardens arrested, Tampa police say
Jacob Pursifull was arrested days after he entered the alligator enclosure at Busch Gardens and posted video of it on social media, Tampa police said.
Police said video of the stunt was posted on social media, which helped officers track the man down.

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  1. White woman who fatally shot Black neighbor in Ocala is arrested
    19 minutes ago• Crime
    A protester holds a poster of Ajike Owens at the Marion County Courthouse in Ocala on Tuesday, demanding the arrest of a woman who shot and killed Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four, on Friday. Deputies on Tuesday arrested Susan Louise Lorincz, 58, on multiple charges including manslaughter with a firearm.
  2. Wide disagreement reigns in trial of deputy accused of not stopping Parkland killer
    2 hours ago• Crime
    Defense attorney Mark Eiglarsh speaks with his client, former Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School School Resource Officer Scot Peterson, prior to opening statements in Peterson's trial at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale on Wednesday.
  3. Tampa Bay man arrested in fatal shooting in Hillsborough, deputies say
    Earlier today• Crime
    Hillsborough County authorities investigate a fatal shooting that happened in the 12100 block of Nebraska Avenue around 7 p.m. Friday. The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office announced Tuesday night that suspect Joel Elkanah Jr., 25, has turned himself in to face a first-degree murder charge. The Sheriff's Office did not provide any identifying information about the person Elkanah is accused of shooting multiple times.
  5. Sheriff probes self-defense claim of white woman who fatally shot Black neighbor in front of kids
    Yesterday• Crime
    A protester, holds a poster of Ajike Owens at the Marion County Courthouse, Tuesday, June 6, 2023, in Ocala, demanding the arrest of a woman who shot and killed Owens, a 35-year-old mother of four, last Friday night, June 2. Authorities came under intense pressure Tuesday to bring charges against a white woman who killed Owens, a Black neighbor, on her front doorstep, as they navigated Florida’s divisive stand your ground law that provides considerable leeway to the suspect in making a claim of self defense. (AP Photo/John Raoux)
  6. Prosecutors drop charges against Pinellas sheriff’s office corporal
    Yesterday• Crime
    Prosecutors have dropped charges against a Pinellas corporal who was arrested in a domestic dispute after his ex-wife indicated that she did not wish to press charges.
  7. Man who entered alligator enclosure at Busch Gardens arrested, Tampa police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Jacob Pursifull was arrested days after he entered the alligator enclosure at Busch Gardens and posted video of it on social media, Tampa police said.
  8. Tropicana employee shot co-worker at company plant, Bradenton police say
    Yesterday• Crime
    Bradenton police are searching for Demitrius Tyrone Bell in connection with a shooting at the Tropicana plant on Monday night. Police said Bell shot a co-worker.
  9. Report gives new details in shooting death of University of Tampa student
    Yesterday• Tampa
    Carson Senfield, a student at the University of Tampa, was fatally shot in September after police said he attempted to get into a car while the driver was in the front seat. A newly released investigation report provides further details on what happened.
  10. Man sought in fatal New York shooting arrested at St. Pete Beach
    Yesterday• Pinellas
    A deputy saw Joseph Scalafani at a bus stop in St. Pete Beach, according to the Pinellas County Sheriff's Office. The agency had been asked to look out for the man wanted for murder by the Suffolk County Police Department.
  11. Florida judge should be reprimanded for conduct during Parkland school shooting trial, report says
    Yesterday• Crime
    Florida Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer sentences Parkland shooter Nikolas Cruz at the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale, Nov. 2, 2022. Cruz was formally sentenced to life in prison for murdering 17 people at Parkland's Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School on Feb. 14, 2018. A state commission concluded Monday that Scherer, should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, failing to curtail “vitriolic statements” directed at Cruz's attorneys by the victims' families and sometimes “allowed her emotions to overcome her judgement.”
  12. Florida neighbor feud over playing children ends with mom shot dead, sheriff says
    Yesterday• Crime
    In this still image from a video broadcast by the Marion County Sheriff's Office, Sheriff Billy Woods speaks at a news conference in Ocala on Monday. Officials say a neighborhood feud over playing children has ended in a Florida mother’s fatal shooting.
  13. Clearwater may allow police, fire chiefs to collect salary and retirement upon return
    June 5• Clearwater
    Former Clearwater deputy police chief Eric Gandy is being considered as the agency's next police chief.
  14. Police investigating homicide in Northeast Tampa
    June 4• Breaking News
    Officers were dispatched to the 6700 block of Woodville Street at around 5:45 p.m. to the report of a shooting in the River Oaks apartment complex, the department said in a news release.
  15. Tampa police say teens were street racing before crash that killed 2
    June 2• Tampa
    18-year-old Savion Griggs, left, and 17-year-old Zi'yon Walter each face two counts of vehicular homicide in a crash Sunday that killed two other teens. Speed is believed to be a factor in the fatal crash.
  16. Tampa woman faces charges in theft of $25k from addiction treatment center
    June 2• Crime
    Zaria Walker stole more than $25,000 from an addiction center where she worked as a payroll administrator, the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office reported.
  17. Tampa City Council members back mayor’s police chief pick
    June 2• Tampa
    Tampa interim police Chief Lee Bercaw speaks at a news conference at Tampa police headquarters Friday after Mayor Jane Castor, right, announced that she had appointed Bercaw to keep the job instead of doing a national search. Also in the background are City Council members Bill Carlson, left, and Gwen Henderson, who attended the news conference in a show of support for Castor's decision.
  18. Records reveal new details of Jeffrey Epstein’s death and the aftermath
    June 2• Crime
    Jeffrey Epstein appears in court in West Palm Beach, Fla., July 30, 2008. The Associated Press has obtained more than 4,000 pages of documents related to Jeffrey Epstein’s jail suicide from the federal Bureau of Prisons.
  19. Pinellas deputies arrest 4 men in fatal drug robbery
    June 2• Crime
    Tyaire Turner, top left, Joshua Ashley, top right, Terrell Markee Jackson, bottom left, and Scott Laracuente, bottom right, are each facing one charge of first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Brent Alley, who was shot to death on April 29.
  20. Watch: Drunk boater passed out at helm seen barreling toward Pinellas beach, swimmers
    June 2• Crime
    Pinellas sheriff's deputies say a man was seen passed out at the helm of a fishing boat that was barreling toward a public Pinellas County beach on Tuesday.
  21. Suspect arrested in connection to St. Petersburg hotel shooting
    June 1• St. Petersburg
    St. Petersburg police are seen at the Tru by Hilton hotel, 1650 Central Ave., on May 1 after a shooting there left two people injured. Police on Thursday announced that Bryton Dunbar, 31, has been arrested on three attempted murder charges in connection to the shooting.
  22. Former MacDill airman gets 3 years in prison for keeping classified documents
    June 1• Military
    A KC-135 refueling aircraft flies over the Dale Mabry entrance of MacDill Air Force Base while coming in for a landing in Tampa. A federal judge on Thursday sentenced a former Air Force intelligence officer at MacDill who kept hundreds of classified documents in his Tampa home to three years in prison.
  23. Pinellas deputy arrested for threats to wife via text
    June 1• Pinellas
    Former Pinellas County deputy Marquis Fitzgerald, 31, was arrested Wednesday and was released from jail after paying a $10,000 bail, jail records show.
  24. Pinellas task force releases body camera footage from fatal police shooting
    May 31• Crime
    Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri, left, and Pinellas Park police Chief Michael Haworth provide an update after an officer shot and killed a man while responding to a domestic dispute.
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