{"id":306055,"date":"2026-06-13T03:58:35","date_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306055\/"},"modified":"2026-06-13T03:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-13T03:58:35","slug":"tampa-man-found-guilty-of-killing-former-boss-after-being-fired-prosecutors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/306055\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa man found guilty of killing former boss after being fired: prosecutors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HILLSBOORUGH COUNTY, FLA. \u2014 A Tampa man is facing life in prison after he was convicted of the shooting death of his former boss on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>A jury found Terry Stephens, 41, of Tampa, guilty of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Hillsborough State Attorney\u2019s Office, 13th Circuit, Stephens orchestrated a plan to rob and kill the victim, his former boss, who had previously fired him. <\/p>\n<p>Stephens and codefendant Eric Wallace asked to buy marijuana from the victim to learn his location.<\/p>\n<p>When they met, Wallace ambushed the victim, shooting and killing him while taking his marijuana, prosecutors said. <\/p>\n<p>Stephens, known by friends as &#8220;Peanut,&#8221; is facing a mandatory life sentence under Florida law.<\/p>\n<p>Wallace was already sentenced to life in prison after his trial in January.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/SUSAN.ELKHOURY.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Family charged hundreds for car towed from paid lot during downtown Tampa event<\/p>\n<p>A family claims a 17-year-old was waved into a parking spot by an attendant, paid $45 to park, and still had her grandfather&#8217;s truck towed during a Lightning playoff game.<\/p>\n<p>Family charged hundreds for car towed from paid lot during downtown Tampa event<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"HILLSBOORUGH COUNTY, FLA. \u2014 A Tampa man is facing life in prison after he was convicted of the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306056,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[91383,18066,276,1933,215,135,5910,108336,3670,137,136,208],"class_list":["post-306055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-boss","tag-fired","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-murder","tag-shooting","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-28-news","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\/306055","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=306055"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306055\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306056"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}