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Deputies are investigating a murder-suicide after a 44-year-old father shot and killed his 5-year-old son, then himself, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office. HCSO said deputies were called to the home off Cranbrook Drive in Lutz shortly at 7:30 Friday morning after the man’s estranged wife, who is the child’s mother, called 911. She told deputies she was there to pick up her son, but no one answered the door. The bodies were found in the home later Friday morning, deputies

A Leesburg man was arrested for battery after allegedly striking another patient in the face at a mental health clinic. An officer was dispatched to Life Stream Behavioral Center, located at 2020 Tally Rd., around 3:44 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 21, according to an arrest report from the Leesburg Police Department. His response was in regard to a physical altercation between two male patients, one of which was later identified as 32-year-old Man. Upon arrival, the officer met with an

One person was transported to the hospital after they were shot in Fort Lauderdale. Fort Lauderdale Police arrived at the scene near the 1000 block of Northwest 53rd Street, Friday morning. According to police, officers were not able to locate the victim when they arrived at the scene. During their investigation, officers located the victim at Holy Cross Health, located at 4725 N. Federal Highway, the victim, a male, was then transported to the Broward Health Medical Center as a

Police were called to a local Wawa after a romantic rendezvous turned violent. “Multiple” 911 calls were received at about 11:30 p.m. Monday leading officers to the Wawa at County Road 466 and U.S. Hwy. 27/441. The boyfriend of 32-year-old C D of Lady Lake told police he had picked up D on Friday “to have sexual intercourse at his residence,” according to an arrest report from the Lady Lake Police Department. D stayed at his home until Monday night.

More than a week after a man was found shot to death near an access road, Clearwater police have arrested his coworker on a murder charge. Investigators say Marvin Dodson IV, 36, killed Everton Dove, 38, and left his body near an access road off U.S. 19, north of Countryside Blvd. Dove’s body was found shortly after 7 a.m. on Nov. 17. According to police, Dodson and Dove were last together after work prior to the shooting. Dodson was booked into the Pinellas

A man was killed after crashing into a car while riding his motorcycle Thursday night, according to Florida Highway Patrol. It happened just after 4 p.m. in Hernando County. FHP said a 44-year-old Brooksville man driving a Chevy Equinox was going eastbound on Ayers Road and started to turn left at the intersection of US 41. At the same time, a 45-year-old Spring Hill man, who was driving a Honda motorcycle, was traveling westbound on Ayers Road. That’s when he struck

A 63-year old man is dead in Palatka after turning into another car and being ejected from his seat. Florida Highway Patrol troopers say that at around 7:30 Thursday night, the 63-year old was stopped at the stop sign on Cracker Swamp Road when he began to turn into the path of a second vehicle that was traveling south on State Road 207. As he was turning, the 63-year old man entered into the lane of the 2nd vehicle when

A one-year-old died in a crash on I-4 Friday morning near Seffner, the Florida Highway Patrol announced. Officials responded to the crash around 1:22 a.m. According to FHP, a Jeep Cherokee, driven by a 21-year-old Englewood woman was traveling eastbound on I-4 behind a Toyota RAV4, driven by a 30-year-old Dundee woman when the Cherokee hit the back of the RAV4. Both drivers of the vehicles suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Along with the driver of the RAV4, a 34-year-old woman was

A holiday horror unfolded at a gated community in Lauderdale Lakes when, a grieving wife said, a deadly argument with a neighbor over loud music ended with her 72-year-old husband shot and killed. Broward County Sheriff’s Office deputies responded to a reported shooting along the 2500 block of Somerset Drive, Thursday afternoon. Investigators said the shooting occurred at around 3:30 p.m. “They are advising that there’s a male laying face down. Be advised subject is possibly still on scene,” said

The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) says a 45-year-old Spring Hill man was killed riding a Honda motorcyclist during a late afternoon accident near Brooksville on Thanksgiving. FHP says the man crashed into a Chevy Equinox driven by a 44-year-old Brooksville man. Troopers say he was uninjured after the crash. Authorities say the motorcyclist crashed into the car around 4:07 p.m. on Nov. 28 while trying to make a left turn at the intersection of US-41 on Ayers Road.  Ovadia Law Group is your trusted ally in the

Photo by: winknews At least two people were injured during a head-on crash on Burnt Store Road and Caloosa Parkway in Cape Coral. Two cars were involved, and two people were airlifted to Gulf Coast Hospital around 5:45p.m. after the crash on Thursday evening. They have non-life threatening injuries. Authorities said that roads are not closed due to the crash. The Cape Coral Police Department is investigating and was on the scene. A silver car completely rolled over onto its

A man was injured on Thursday afternoon in southern Miami-Dade County’s Richmond Heights area. Police officers responded shortly after 4:25 p.m. to a report of a shooting near Jefferson Street and Southwest 136 Avenue and found a man wounded. Fire rescue personnel took the man, whose condition was critical, to the Jackson South Medical Center. According to Detective Andre Martin, a spokesman for the Miami-Dade Police Department, the witnesses were uncooperative. When you’re involved in a shooting incident, the aftermath