{"id":162437,"date":"2026-02-20T11:29:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162437\/"},"modified":"2026-02-20T11:29:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-20T11:29:13","slug":"arrest-made-in-deadly-shooting-at-tampa-cookout-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/162437\/","title":{"rendered":"Arrest Made In Deadly Shooting At Tampa Cookout: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TAMPA, FL \u2014 A 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with a deadly shooting during a Sunday night cookout at a Tampa home, authorities said. <\/p>\n<p>Aniel Avidan Galo-Chavez was arrested Tuesday and charged with second-degree murder, Tampa police said in a news release. He was booked into Orient Road Jail.<\/p>\n<p>Officers found a man in his mid-40s dead from a gunshot wound when responding to reports of a shooting at a home in the 3000 block of W. Spruce Street on Sunday. <\/p>\n<p>A group of people were at the home for the cookout when numerous arguments and physical fights broke out, police said. <\/p>\n<p>One fight between Galo-Chavez, another man and the victim turned physical. The fight ended when the victim disengaged and left the room. <\/p>\n<p>Galo-Chavez then went into a bedroom, returned armed with a gun and shot the unarmed victim, police said. A gun was recovered at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis incident is a tragic reminder that conflicts should not be resolved with violence,\u201d Chief Lee Bercaw said. \u201cA disagreement has now resulted in the permanent loss of a life and devastating consequences for everyone involved. Our detectives will always remain committed to thorough investigations to ensure justice is pursued.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, FL \u2014 A 20-year-old man was arrested in connection with a deadly shooting during a Sunday night&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":162438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-162437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162437","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=162437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/162438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}