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TAMPA, Fla. – Tampa<\/a> police have arrested a man they say shot another man on Monday afternoon and ran off.<\/p>\n What we know:<\/p>\n The shooting happened around 4 p.m. near the intersection of N. 27th St and E. 97th Ave.<\/a><\/p>\n When officers arrived, they said they found a man in his late 30s who had been shot.<\/p>\n They immediately began providing life-saving care, until Tampa Fire Rescue arrived and took him to an area hospital.<\/p>\n READ: Clearwater company sues city after graves found buried beneath property<\/a><\/p>\n At last check, the victim was in critical but stable condition.<\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Officers were told that a man in an orange hoodie was seen running away from the shooting scene.<\/p>\n Police said that evidence gathered at the scene indicated that the suspect, later identified as Emanuel Watson, knew the victim.<\/p>\n READ: \u2018Prophetess\u2019 is third suspect indicted in Kingdom of God Global Church forced labor, money laundering scheme<\/a><\/p>\n The pair got into a verbal altercation that turned physical and eventually escalated into shots being fired, according to the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n Officers found Watson in the backyard of a home in 10000 block of N. 26th St.<\/p>\n Watson was charged with attempted murder, aggravated battery with a weapon and possession of a controlled substance.<\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “The swift arrest of this suspect is a testament to the training and quick instincts of our officers who ran toward danger to save a life and make a neighborhood safer,” said Chief Lee Bercaw. “An argument should never result in gunfire, and we will continue to hold those who resort to such senseless violence accountable for their actions.”<\/p>\n What’s next:<\/p>\n The shooting is still under investigation.<\/p>\n The Source: This article was written with information found in a press release from the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n Tampa<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office TAMPA, Fla. – Tampa police have arrested a man they say shot…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":158657,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-158656","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-crime-publicsafety","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-hillsborough","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158656\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}