Tampa<\/a> man is facing attempted murder charges after investigators say he struck his girlfriend with a vehicle after they got into an altercation.<\/p>\nTampa police investigation<\/p>\n
What we know<\/p>\n
According to the Hillsborough County Sheriff\u2019s Office, deputies went to\u00a0East 138th Avenue in Tampa on June 12 where a woman was hit by a car.<\/p>\n
She was taken to an area hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.<\/p>\n
Detectives said the victim and her boyfriend, Levi Stevenson, got into an altercation and he forcefully took her phone when she tried to call for help.<\/p>\n
As the victim was walking along the street, Stevenson veered off the roadway, struck her with his vehicle and took off, according to HCSO.<\/p>\n
He was located and arrested on June 15.<\/p>\n
Stevenson was charged with attempted murder.<\/p>\n
What we don’t know<\/p>\n
Officials have not yet confirmed the exact events that triggered the initial argument between the couple. It also remains unclear how detectives tracked down Stevenson before his arrest on Monday.<\/p>\n
Domestic violence response<\/p>\n
What they’re saying<\/p>\n
“A moment of anger should never cost someone their life. This victim showed incredible courage by walking away from a dangerous situation, only to be met with unthinkable violence,” said Sheriff Chad Chronister. “Thanks to the determination of our detectives, this individual is now in custody and will face the consequences of his actions.”<\/p>\n
The Source<\/p>\n
The information in this story was gathered from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office, which detailed the investigation, arrest records and statements regarding the June 12 altercation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brief A Tampa man faces an attempted murder charge after driving his car into his girlfriend following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":309890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[25773,71204,104379,129121,135,137,136],"class_list":["post-309889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-altercation","tag-hillsborough-county-sheriff39s-office","tag-his-girlfriend","tag-levi-stevenson","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309889","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=309889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/309890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}