Deadly crash on inter275 back in 2012. Christopher ponce is in custody in spain and will be brought back to the united states. Chip, do we have any idea when he upon return to tampa . Reporter it could take months. It could be longer than that. We spoke with one legal expert who told us it could take longer than a year if he fights ex tradition back here on the united states. Its difficult to imagine wade angels pain knowing the man accused of killing his son was a freeman. I see reports all the time about people who were on the lam for much longer. I was prepared for the longhaul. Reporter in a small city in spain, a suspicious Christopher Ponce was spotted in a bus station by officers. Questioning. At that time they found a fake mexican passport on him. Reporter when will he return to the u. S. . Brian is a legal expert and attorney not affiliated with this case. He explains it could be a while. Due process the treaty with spain requires that he be taken to a judge in spain, he can c
Thursday morning weather with meteorologist leigh spann. Good morning. And temperatures close to what we expect for august. Were at 75 in lutz. 76 in palm harbor. Kids making up, heading back to school in pinellas and hillsborough. 74 in river riverview. 73 in brooksville. Polk county, kids still sleeping in, 77 in sarasota. All of us will stay nice and dry through the morning hours. In fact, even early hours, the rain chance is very p. M. When i bring the rain chance up to 40 and the storms generally push closer and closer to the coast by the time we see the sunsetting this evening. Above average, but just slightly as far as temperatures are concerned. Im expecting 91, the average is 90. At 6 08, i have an hourbyhour look through thursday. Weve been off to a really quiet start. So hopefully we will keep it that way. Heres a live view of 257 at fowler. We are seeing more folks hitting the road but no one hitting the brakes. And busy in the plant city area. Both directions of i4 at park
Like many john wright cannot believe she is dead, she was standing beside me she gave me that wink and smile as she was famous for. She joined the chamber of commerce for a presentation on how officer does their jobs. When she was volunteered to participate in a shoot, dont shoot. She did not blink, she said im lefthanded i dont know how to handle this mock gun. D good time doing this. And she prepared to face the officer with a gun that should have had blanks but when he pulled the trigger reality immediately sank in, we heard three loud explosions. Louder than i think we anticipated. It took seconds but they realized that the gun was loaded. The police chief said this is a terrible accident that has a lot of questions surrounding it. And was investigated but cleared for Excessive Force involving a bike stop with a canine. For those who knew knowlton the thought is unbelievable but there is no resentment for the officer. Angry it happened, yes, angry at anybody . It was an accident. T
Pregnancy store in st. Petersburg. From tampa bays number one news station, this is good day tampa bay. Hey everybody welcome its 8 oclock. Im russell rhodes. Im laura moody maternity, you know what i mean. What a pregnancy store. Whats thanks for waking up with us it is august 11th. Now it makes sense. Thank you. We will g you want to start over . Yeah. But go ahead you just finish it you just take it. Welcome everybody its 8 oclock here on good day tampa bay. A lovely thursday morning. I do have a little bit of fog, a couple of spots near sarasota, near brooksville, eastern pasco county, but no matter, its actually a very nice start to the day. Were up to 78 in tampa now. Same for clearwater 77 in sarasota. Mid 70s inland. But, we will finish with scattered late day storms. Rain chances 40 to 50 percent thanks, dave. If youre just joining we had two bigger crashes that were following with a delays one in hillsborough, one in pinellas, good news for folks tlavrlg along 75 northbound s
Ambulance. Fox 13s everyone lambert is live along mlk fords road and plant city with latest i know discussing new details what can you tell us everyone . We just got an email update from at Hillsborough County sheriffs office. And what i can tell you, is that both men involved in this road rage incident have been identified. They have identified the man who was killed as gary durham of brandon. And deputies say the shooter was robert his street is being withheld at this time but the incident happened just east of here. That light behind me is forbes road and it happened along mlk. They found the deceased mr. Durham in the road. And i want to take you to some video of from skyfox so you can see the response to this. Deputies say they got a 911 call alerting them of a shooting. When they got here they found a man dead on the ground. Identified as gary durham. And they said that they found the shooter overhim performing cpr at the time. They say at some point the two men got into a fight