{"id":382859,"date":"2026-08-27T19:50:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382859\/"},"modified":"2026-08-27T19:50:24","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T19:50:24","slug":"3-tampa-teens-being-charged-as-adults-for-attack-on-homeless-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/382859\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Tampa teens being charged as adults for attack on homeless man"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three teenagers accused of beating a homeless man in July are now being charged as adults.<\/p>\n

According to the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office, the three teenagers attacked and “repeatedly beat” a 64-year-old man on July 13.<\/p>\n

The office announced on Thursday that Samari Bryant, 13, Corliss Sirmons, 14, and Javonnie Council, 16, would be charged as adults with attempted murder.<\/p>\n

RELATED: 3 Tampa teens charged with attempted murder after attacking people out of ‘boredom,’ TPD said<\/a><\/p>\n

Tampa police say the teens admitted they were looking for homeless people to “mess with” because they were bored.<\/p>\n

Around 7:45 a.m. on July 13, the teens allegedly attacked the man after they spotted him outside a Walgreens on North Nebraska Avenue. Police say the man suffered significant injuries, including a traumatic brain injury and broken ribs.<\/p>\n

The three teens had allegedly attacked another man and a woman around 2:30 that same morning on East Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, according to police. The woman was injured after she was reportedly hit with a rock in the back of the head.<\/p>\n

“No human being should be treated as a target for someone else’s entertainment,” Lopez said in a statement. “Given the severity of the violence and the disturbing nature of these defendants’ actions, these charges are appropriate and necessary to hold each defendant accountable for this crime.”<\/p>\n

The attorney’s office plans to ask a judge to hold the teens without bond until their trial begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Three teenagers accused of beating a homeless man in July are now being charged as adults. According to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":382860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[153571,27942,153570,135,1526,137,136],"class_list":["post-382859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-corliss-sirmons","tag-homeless-man","tag-samari-bryant","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382859","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=382859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/382859\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/382860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=382859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=382859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}