
“We need everyone to pay attention to whats going on in their neighborhood … I can only imagine how they are on edge right now. “We need everyone’s cooperation,” Dugan told reporters Tuesday.


He encouraged neighborhood residents to study the footage and come forward with any identifying information. The footage, patched together images from multiple security cameras, includes a nearly 2-minute sequence of a person in a black hooded sweatshirt walking down the street toward the bus stop where Mitchell was shot and killed. 26 the department secured video of a person of interest in the case. Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan said during a press conference Oct. She was last seen walking through the neighborhood two days earlier. Felton’s murder falls within the same 1-mile radius, though investigators have yet to discuss what other evidence points to the cases being linked. Frierson Avenue, about 200 yards away from the Ellicott Street bus stop where Mitchell was shot Oct. Investigators believe the suspect lives in the neighborhood. A reward for information in the case increased to $41,000, according to a report from the Tampa Bay Times.įelton’s slaying breaks a month of relative calm in Seminole Heights as police continue piecing together evidence from the cases of the shooter’s three other victims: Benjamin Edward Mitchell, 22 Monica Caridad Hoffa, 32 and Anthony Naiboa, 20. “We will hunt this person down until we find them.” “This has got to stop,” Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn told reporters Tuesday. He attacked Felton as he crossed Nebraska Avenue toward New Season Apostolic Ministries around 4:50 a.m. Ronald Felton, 60, died just steps from the food bank where he volunteered twice a week. A witness described the person who shot and killed Felton as a thin, black male with a light complexion, approximately six feet tall, wearing all black and carrying a large black pistol. A serial killer prowling the streets of Tampa’s Seminole Heights neighborhood claimed victim number four Tuesday.
