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You may be right, but looking at the pants, the material looks kind of ...almost silky, it drapes like silk ? jmo
track pants with socks and flip flops?
You may be right, but looking at the pants, the material looks kind of ...almost silky, it drapes like silk ? jmo
track pants with socks and flip flops?
Possible. But, flip flops are a poor choice if she/he needed to run away quickly ?
snipped the video and linkWondering how the perp was able to slip away in spite of a heavy LE presence?
Do they slip into other clothing, a disguise?
Do we know if the victims were robbed? Seems to me the killer lives in the area, and may be an addict, looking for the means to have their next fix.
I go from frustration to anger, said Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan.
Dugan says its just too coincidental to be anything but connected. Thee murder victims in just 10 days, all within a few square blocks of each other.
When you look at the timeframe, the proximity, that there is no apparent motive, that they are alone, the victims are a lot of the time, it's clear to me that they're all linked, he said.
Joy Dupree lives around the corner from two of the shootings. She could hear the shots. Three the first time, she said, and one gunshot Thursday night.
I mean, it's pretty scary. And it being so close is what makes it even scarier. So, you just stay in the house, said Dupree.
The Chiefs advice to people in the area is to stay outside, but not alone. Be alert so they can catch this person.
We're not going to be held hostage by whoever is doing this. We need everyone to come out of their homes at night, said Chief Dugan. Turn on their porch lights. And, just not tolerate this type of terrorism in the neighborhood.
We wanted to see how the murders compare to overall crime numbers in the area.
Last year, there was one murder in Seminole Heights and 14 shootings. From January through September of this year, there were no murders and five shootings.
Robbery does not seem to be the motive, LE say the murders are linked, but so far, no known motive. Thinking the person shoots and kills, then scampers off, imo,speculation.
http://www.wtsp.com/news/crime/tamp...hs-in-seminole-heights-neighborhood/484796193
rbbm.
What about this one? Check out sketch of suspect.
TPD: New Video shows Murder Victim's Final Hours
The Tampa Police Department needs your help catching a killer. Investigators released new video of a murder victim, 25-year-old Dontae Lampkins. It shows Lampkins as he got on and off a HART bus on January 24, 2017. It’s one of the last times he was seen alive.
Investigators say he was likely going to meet his killer who he connected with through an online dating app.
Two days later, construction workers found the 25-year-old dead in an alley near Hillsborough Avenue and Nebraska Street.
Lampkins is the third gay man murdered just a few weeks apart in the Seminole Heights area.
Media reports quote police as saying they're unrelated. Buuuut ... they sure seem to share a lot of similarities, imo.
Third victim killed in Seminole Heights
Dugan said at this point investigators do not believe that the killings are connected to the shooting death of 25-year-old Dontae Lampkins, whose body was found Jan. 26 in an alleyway between E Mohawk and Comanche avenues, in the Hampton Terrace neighborhood of Seminole Heights.
The meeting with Tampa police will give concerned residents a chance to talk with investigators, who continue to hunt for whoever shot and killed three people at random in an 11-day span starting Oct. 9. It is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. at the Edison Elementary School auditorium, 1607 E Curtis St.
So far, the only lead police have released to the public is a grainy video of a slender hooded figure walking a neighborhood street. Police have not called the person — who appears to be a man — a suspect, but they do want to speak with him.
"We've gotten some tips," said Tampa police spokesman Steve Hegarty. "People are helping; people are cooperating. Everyone is trying to be helpful, but it hasn't added up."
"There's a lot of police work going on," Hegarty said. "We're going door to door and chatting with people."
In part, the police presence is to help the neighborhood feel at ease, but also so officers can continue to probe for what people may have seen.
"Nothing is insignificant," Hegarty said.
Anyone with information for police can call (813) 231-6130.
Contact Sara DiNatale at sdinatale@tampabay.com (727) 893-8862. Follow @sara_dinatale.
IMO & purely moo; looks like a young AA male, possibly with a military background, athletic, perhaps had been in a marching band, maybe has a low-powered flashlight in his back pocket; defiant & bold. Angry.
Someone he is close with has to have noticed his stressed out anger. Someone needs to report it.
BBM - I think you might have something there. I kept thinking there was something familiar about that walk - I was heavily involved when my kids were in marching band and they walked like that while marching and had to really think about it to stop walking like that.
Police are warning residents in the Seminole Heights neighborhood against walking outside alone, but encouraging them to go outside in groups and to pay attention to their surroundings, even handing out porch lights.
Things are moving, just not as quickly as we want," Dugan said, referring to the investigation.
Interim Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan told "FOX & Friends Weekend" that the only link between the three victims was that each one was all alone at the time of their murder.
"We don’t know if this in one individual. We don't know their color. We don’t know their race, their ethnicity, their sex," Dugan said. "There's so many unknowns, and that's why we're hesitant to label it with anything."