{"id":49049,"date":"2017-10-27T05:19:10","date_gmt":"2017-10-27T05:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=49049"},"modified":"2017-10-27T05:24:24","modified_gmt":"2017-10-27T05:24:24","slug":"tampa-police-release-more-video-of-person-of-interest-in-3-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/tampa-police-release-more-video-of-person-of-interest-in-3-killings.html","title":{"rendered":"Tampa police release more video of person of interest in 3 killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Tampa police release more video of person of interest in 3 killings<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Police in Tampa, Florida, today released extended surveillance video of a person of interest who they believe may have some knowledge of three slayings over 11 days in the Seminole Heights neighborhood, which have terrorized residents there.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">The compilation of surveillance recordings is mostly in black and white and at times in color, captured by different cameras from various angles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"New Video of Person of Interest in Seminole Heights Murder Investigation\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/McL88HkJ844?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Police are focusing on the person of interest, who&#8217;s seen in the video walking and, at times, running along a street close to where, around 9 p.m. on Oct. 9, 22-year-old college student Benjamin Mitchell was shot and killed at a bus stop near his home.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Two days later, Monica Hoffa, 32, was shot in the evening while attempting to meet up with a friend, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Two days elapsed before Hoffa&#8217;s remains turned up in a vacant lot on New Orleans Avenue East.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">On Oct. 19 at 8 p.m., Anthony Naiboa, 20, was shot to death on North 15th Street shortly after he got off a bus at the wrong stop.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Naiboa&#8217;s death was the third slaying in the area in less than two weeks. Police said they believe the killings are linked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;We believe this is the same person we saw walking just moments earlier,&#8221; interim Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan said today during a news conference. &#8220;He is running in the other direction &#8230; We believe this is the same person, once again, running away from the scene of the shooting.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">In multiple recordings, the slender individual, wearing pants and a hooded windbreaker, is seen flipping a cellphone with the right hand.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Later in the almost two-minute video, the same person looks at the phone.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Dugan cautioned the public that the reason to pursue the person in the video is to drum up leads in a case that has stalled.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;We are not saying this person is a suspect,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We believe this person saw or heard something that could be a key to solving these murders. We believe this person has ties to the neighborhood.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">A video released by police on Oct. 17 shows the same individual walking down a street on the same night Mitchell died.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Dugan said the original, pixelated video is significant and &#8220;in many ways the best video that we have&#8221; because it shows the person of interest &#8220;very near the scene of the shooting.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">But the release of more video of the same person, whom Dugan repeatedly referred to as &#8220;he,&#8221; doesn&#8217;t necessarily mean that individual is the killer.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Dugan clarified to ABC News that the person of interest is not necessarily a man.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">He also stressed that &#8220;we believe that this person has ties to the neighborhood, and we want to speak to him.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Dugan wondered why the person has yet to come forward to answer their questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;Why, after this long? We&#8217;ve had this video out there for so long. Why has he not come forward?&#8221; he asked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Dugan then took time to evaluate the person&#8217;s attire.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;Look at the style of clothing,&#8221; he said, referring to the person&#8217;s hooded top and tight-fitting pants. &#8220;Is it a rain jacket? Is it a long thin T-shirt-style hoodie? Someone has to know who wears clothing like that.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;These are questions I can&#8217;t answer, but someone who knows this individual walking in this video and later running from the area could possibly give us answers,&#8221; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">When pressed by reporters today, Dugan attempted to answer the questions.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"color: #000000;font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve come up with four reasons why this person is running. One, they may be late for dinner. Two, they&#8217;re out exercising. Three, they heard gunshots. 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