{"id":17046,"date":"2025-10-23T10:54:44","date_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:54:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17046\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T10:54:44","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T10:54:44","slug":"jury-selection-underway-for-first-suspect-in-tampa-murder-of-julio-foolio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/17046\/","title":{"rendered":"Jury selection underway for first suspect in Tampa murder of Julio Foolio"},"content":{"rendered":"

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of Alicia Andrews, one of five suspects charged in the murder of Jacksonville rapper Julio Foolio.<\/p>\n

On June 23, 2024, the Tampa Police Department said officers received a 911 call reporting <\/a>a shooting at 11606 McKinley Drive. Upon arrival, officers found two vehicles that had been shot at in the parking lot of Home 2 Suites.<\/p>\n

Foolio, whose real name was Charles Jones, died in the shooting. Foolio was in Tampa that weekend to celebrate his birthday, according to a a release by the Fucso Law Group.<\/p>\n

Andrews, who was 21 years old at the time, was arrested along with four other suspects, who police said traveled in two vehicles from Jacksonville to Tampa to commit murder.<\/p>\n

Andrews is charged with first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n

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“I was 100% sure it was them.”<\/p>\n

A Tampa Bay area landscaping business owner narrowly avoided losing $15,000 to scammers who impersonated his bank and knew his detailed banking history. Tampa Bay 28 I-Team Investigator shares his story <\/a>and how to spot the same “cash bag scam”.<\/p>\n

Tampa small business owner nearly lost $15K to sophisticated ‘cash bag scam’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Jury selection began on Monday in the trial of Alicia Andrews, one of five suspects…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":17047,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,11266,276,11265,14312,14313,135,5910,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-17046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-alicia-andrews","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-julio-foolio","tag-julio-foolio-shooting","tag-murder-trial","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046","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=17046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17046\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}