{"id":257137,"date":"2026-05-04T00:31:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:31:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257137\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T00:31:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T00:31:16","slug":"plant-city-man-admitted-to-shooting-at-a-car-multiple-times-intended-to-kill-the-driver-hcso","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/257137\/","title":{"rendered":"Plant City man admitted to shooting at a car multiple times, intended to kill the driver: HCSO"},"content":{"rendered":"

Deputies say Nicolas Totherow was following the car, which had four people inside \u2014 including a child. <\/p>\n

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A Plant City man was arrested after deputies say he admitted to shooting at a car multiple times \u2014 and intended to kill the driver.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At around 3:15 p.m. Wednesday, the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office recieved a call reporting a shooting near the intersection of Highway 92 and Wiggins Road. The caller reported that a man, later identified as Nicolas Totherow, 31, was following their vehicle and actively shooting at them.<\/p>\n


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Four people, including a child, were reportedly inside the car. Deputies say the caller remained on the line while Totherow continued following them northbound on Park Road and onto the I-4 eastbound on-ramp.<\/p>\n

Totherow continued to follow them and fire shots before continuing eastbound on I-4 as the victims exited onto County Line Road, officials say.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Deputies say they eventually found the victims and confirmed that the car had been struck by gunfire multiple times. \u00a0<\/p>\n

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Totherow was taken into custody, and a firearm was recovered from his car. During an interview, deputies say he admitted to firing multiple rounds at the victims’ vehicle, and he said he intended to kill the driver.<\/p>\n

Authorities say he is now facing multiple charges, including:<\/p>\n

First-degree attempted murder premeditated with a firearm – dischargeAggravated battery great bodily harm firearm – discharge (x4)Discharge firearm from a vehicleShooting at within or into a vehicleArmed possession of controlled substanceDriving while license canceled, suspended or revoked <\/p>\n

\u201cThis reckless and violent behavior put multiple innocent lives at risk on our roadways,\u201d\u00a0Sheriff Chad Chronister wrote in a statement. \u201cThanks to the quick actions of our Communications Center and the coordinated response of our deputies and detectives, this suspect was taken into custody before anyone was killed. We will not tolerate violence in our community.\u201d<\/p>\n

An investigation is ongoing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Deputies say Nicolas Totherow was following the car, which had four people inside \u2014 including a child. TAMPA,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-257137","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\/257137","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=257137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}