{"id":160423,"date":"2026-02-18T22:31:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160423\/"},"modified":"2026-02-18T22:31:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T22:31:13","slug":"tampa-fatal-shooting-occurred-at-a-cookout-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/160423\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa fatal shooting occurred at a cookout, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man has been arrested in connection to a weekend shooting that Tampa police said occurred after arguments and fights broke out at a cookout.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police were called to a home in the 3000 block of West Spruce Street on Sunday night, where they found a man in his 30s had been fatally shot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cPreliminary information revealed that a group of people, who were all known to each other, were attending a cookout when numerous arguments and physical altercations took place between various individuals,\u201d Tampa police said in a news release on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The news release said that Aniel Avidan Galo-Chavez, 20, was arrested on Tuesday in connection with the shooting \u201cafter a thorough investigation\u201d in which investigators sorted out what had happened.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cOne fight between Galo-Chavez, another adult male, and the victim turned physical,\u201d the news release states. \u201cThe physical fighting ended when the victim disengaged and left the room. Galo-Chavez then went into a bedroom, returning armed with a gun, and shot the unarmed victim. A gun was recovered at the scene and placed into evidence.\u201c<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police have not yet released the name of the man who was killed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Galo-Chavez is facing a second-degree murder charge. He was being held at the Falkenburg Road jail on Wednesday without bond, records show.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThis incident is a tragic reminder that conflicts should not be resolved with violence,\u201d police Chief Lee Bercaw said in a statement. \u201cA disagreement has now resulted in the permanent loss of a life and devastating consequences for everyone involved.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/61781ec98cd51e9bf318720e8a1ebb00.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in connection to a weekend shooting that Tampa police said occurred after arguments&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160424,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[76827,76829,4823,76828,135,137,136,9822,76830],"class_list":{"0":"post-160423","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tampa","8":"tag-aniel-avidan-galo-chavez","9":"tag-cookout","10":"tag-fatal-shooting","11":"tag-physical-altercations","12":"tag-tampa","13":"tag-tampa-headlines","14":"tag-tampa-news","15":"tag-tampa-police","16":"tag-thorough-investigation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160423","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=160423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160423\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}