vanessa do regular traffic. Toss to alcides i4 riding their bikes in front of their home. What happened next. Will change their lives forever. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves is live in lakeland. Where the 5year old boy was hit and killed by a pick up the man they say hit and killed a tampa teen. But hes already bonded out of jail. This is an update to a story we brought you late yesterday morning. At that time police were still searching for the driver. Nikolaos konstantinou has seen been arrested. Police say he ran over 17yearold Ashley Perdomo wednesday night. Then left the scene. Police say he file an Insurance Claim for his damaged car. Last night. The teens family held a vigil. They say theyre relieved konstantinou is being held responsible. But the bottom line is according to the Pinellas County jail. Konstantinou bonded out early this morning on 15thousanddollars bond. That was for his deadly hit and run charge. He still has to face a judge for leaving the scene of a death. vanessa a day
dave toss to Vanessa Ruffes vanessa ckey Vanessa Ruffes . T . fox13traffic vanessa we have a crash along u. S. 92. This is going to be in the mango area, west of mango blockage. Make sure youre being alert and using caution in the area. Be alert here. Debris on the roadway southbound 75 getting off onto the westbound selmon expressway. On the ramp itself, fhp reporting a right lane will be blocked by the debris so be careful. Russell Tampa Shopping Center in flames. Three alarm fire started around 9 00 last night at the big and hillsborough avenue. Took crews three hours to bring it all under control. Four people working inside when it started. They all got out okay. There were some concerns that the roof could collapse so tampa fire rescue called for backup. The Fire Marshalls Office will be there to investigate into how it might have started. Laura today a hearing could determine when john jonchuck, junior can face first degree murder charges in the death of his daughter phoebe. He i
Friday im Vanessa Ruffes in for Walter Allen Laura and im laura moody. Jen epstein has the day off as well. Lets start off with a check of the forecast, with dave. dave partly cloudy, breezy and warm with high temps making it back into the mid 80s. Tonight will be clear and lovely, turning much drier, with lows temps heading back into the upper 50s. The weekend looks beautiful with sunshine and cooler temps. Highs will be in the mid to upper 70s, and lows temps in the 50s. Developing this morning. Police are investigating a murder in tampa. And the killer is still on the run. A womans body was found laying in the middle of flora street yesterday. Neighbors say police went around asking if th police say its clear this was not an accident. The name of the victim has not yet been released. A sad update this morning on a sarasota hitandrun crash. The woman hit by a car tuesday night. Has passed away. Right now. Police say they have no witnesses and no description of the vehicle repsonsible
Developing this morning. Busch gardens isnt taking any chances after a deadly amusment park accident in australia. The park has decided to close down one of its rides similiar to the one that killed four people in australia. Fox 13s shayla a 2year old boy took quite a tumble in bradenton. He fell out of a secondstory window at the royal palm Terrace Apartments on 26th street east. Deputies say his mother was cleaning her apartment and had the windows open. She heard her 4year old Say Something about not going out the window. And then noticed the 2year old was gone his mother found him lying on the ground below. He was responsive. And appeared to be okay. But was taken to the hospital to be checked out. Deputies say he fell about 15 feet. Tomorrow is his birthday. After a standoff that lasted several hours in pasco county. A man wanted for attempted murder is under arrest. Deputies caught Michael Putnam yesterday inside the Rodeway Inn Motel in new port richey. Putnam had been on the ru
Developing this morning in Hillsborough County another tragedy. On the driver helping another. Has been hit and . Killed. Fox 13s Shayla Reaves joins us from the orient road jail. Where the driver . Charged in all this, is waking up this happening today in polk county jury selection begins in a deadly hit and run trial. John stone is accused of rearending a motorcycle last november in mulberry with his pickup truck. The motorcycle driver. Paul wooten. . Died at the arrested two days later and charged with leaving the scene of a deadly crash. more and there is also a . Lawsuit stemming from that tragedy. The brother of the man killed. Is now . Suing two bars for serving alcohol to the driver. Corey wooten claims that both the mulberry American Legion and the former xyz liquors sold drinks to john stone the night of the deadly crash. They claim the bars . Knowingly served drinks to man. With a drinking problem. Any money awarded from the lawsuit would go to woo help pay for funeral servi