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 An attempted carjacking at a Pompano Beach gas station over the weekend ended with a good Samaritan shooting and killing the suspect, deputies said. But the alleged carjacker’s mother is disputing their account. The shooting happened just before 5 p.m. Sunday at the RaceTrac at 599 W. Atlantic Blvd. Deputies said Brian Semil, 37, tried to carjack a mother and her children; they said three men intervened and one of them opened fire. Despite his history, Semil’s mother, Selinda Crawley,

Photo by: Hannah Lanham A Valrico family is left with nothing after neighbors said their home exploded when the power came back on after Hurricane Milton.  Hannah Lanham and her three young sons have already been through immense loss after her father and her son, 14-year-old Jeremiah’s, father passed away in recent years. He had a teddy with his dad’s voice, and Lanham had her father’s urn inside the home, both of which were destroyed. Monday night, Lanham came home to her

Two people were killed Tuesday evening in a crash in St. Petersburg, police said. The St. Petersburg Police Department said at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, an SUV and a tow truck crashed at the intersection of 5th Avenue South and 22nd Street South. Two adults in the SUV, identified as Shakesha Desence and Dilean Desence, were killed. Dilean’s Desence’s 9-year-old grandson was taken to All Children’s Hospital with serious injuries. Police are investigating the crash. After a car accident, the

Police are investigating after a 17-year-old was found shot at an apartment complex in southwest Miami-Dade Tuesday night. Miami-Dade Police said officers responded to the complex at 10875 Southwest 216th Street around 8:20 p.m. after receiving a ShotSpotter gunshot detection alert. When officers arrived they found the teen suffering from an apparent gunshot wound. He was taken to Jackson South Medical Center in stable condition. A window at the complex appeared to have been struck by a bullet. One resident

A 68-year-old Fanning Springs man died Tuesday morning when his vehicle collided with a tractor-trailer backing into Cash and Carry Pole Barns and Discount Lumber on US Highway 19 north of Chiefland. According to a Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) release, a 57-year-old Haleyville, Alabama man was driving a tractor-trailer facing east across the southbound lanes of US 19 attempting to back into the Cash and Carry Pole Barns lot to offload cargo at 6:50 a.m. The Fanning Springs man was

 A domestic dispute escalated into a violent situation on Monday when a woman stabbed her boyfriend after an argument about his late arrival home from work, police confirmed. According to an arrest report from the Miami-Dade Police Department, the couple, who live together with their two children, became embroiled in a confrontation after the victim arrived home without food prepared. Police said the couple’s argument intensified when 33-year-old Dulce Guerrero armed herself with a knife. Detectives said the victim attempted

Photo by: local10 Emergency crews shut down Florida’s Turnpike Tuesday afternoon following a crash between a van and a tractor-trailer that sent multiple victims to local hospitals and left one person dead. It happened near the Griffin Road exit in Davie. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, medics pronounced a female dead at the scene. Authorities did not specify whether she was an adult or child. 5 p.m. report: According to Davie Fire Rescue, medics took eight people — five

A 62-year-old bicyclist was struck and killed by a vehicle on Saturday evening, according to Cocoa Beach police. Police said the crash happened around 7:03 p.m. in the westbound lanes of State Road 520. According to Cocoa Beach police, the crash involved a bicyclist and a van, but no other details were released about what led to the wreck. Police said the bicyclist was later pronounced dead at Cape Canaveral Hospital. The driver of the van, identified as a 46-year-old

Photo by: WPLG Miami-Dade police are working to piece together the details of a shooting that they said involved a woman driving a minivan and a man on a motorcycle. Authorities said the two got into an argument shortly before 2 p.m., during which the man pulled out a gun and shot the woman in her lower body near Kendall Drive and Southwest 137th Avenue. Police told Local 10′s Christian De La Rosa that the woman is in stable condition

One person has died after a Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority bus hit a pedestrian on an electric scooter late Tuesday morning. St. Pete Police said the accident happened at the intersection of 22nd Avenue and the Pinellas Trail. Police said the pedestrian on the electric scooter was taken to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries. The PSTA bus was carrying ten passengers when it was involved in an accident. No one was injured in the accident. The

A motorcyclist was killed in a crash on State Road 70. The crash happened Monday afternoon. According to the Florida Highway Patrol, a 42-year-old man was in a vehicle waiting to turn across the eastbound lanes of SR-70 onto Manor Hill Lane East into the path of the motorcycle. The motorcyclist, a 20-year-old man from Palmetto, collided with the rear of the vehicle. The motorcyclist suffered sever injuries as a result. He was taken to the hospital where he later

A 19-year-old Miami Beach man was arrested following an altercation with a doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital, where the victim serves as his mother’s physician, according to police. He appeared before a judge, Tuesday. The victim, 69-year-old Dr. Steven Silvers, also spoke during the court hearing and told his account of what happened. “I was going to my office and, at 8:15 in the morning, I briefly had an interaction with this gentleman and then I turned to walk away