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After a shooting in Ybor City on Oct. 29 left two people dead and 16 injured, Tampa Police increased officer and patrol presence throughout the district over what some say was an abnormally quiet weekend. Approximately 100 officers, including some from neighboring law enforcement agencies, patrolled in their vehicles, on foot, bike and horseback. “Today marks one week since the tragic . ....
TAMPA — Seconds after gunshots rang out on Seventh Avenue, two friends lay bleeding on the concrete. Kila Ryker and Emily Perez had donned costumes and headed to Ybor City to celebrate Halloween. They’d come to love the lively entertainment district. Now they feared they would die there. Terrified they would get shot again, as chaos swirled around them, Perez and Ryker caught each other’s gaze. . ....
TAMPA — A Hillsborough County judge granted a delay in a hearing on Thursday that will determine if the suspect arrested in the deadly weekend Ybor City shooting will remain in jail ahead of his trial. Tyrell Phillips, 22, was arrested on a charge of second-degree murder with a firearm hours after the shooting that resulted in the death of a 14-year-old boy and a 20-year-old man and injured 15 . ....
Documents detailed the events that led to the arrest of 22-year-old Tyrell Stephen Phillips, who was one of the suspects involved in the Ybor City mass. ....