{"id":383905,"date":"2026-08-28T21:12:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383905\/"},"modified":"2026-08-28T21:12:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-28T21:12:07","slug":"investigators-rule-tampa-shooting-a-murder-suicide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/383905\/","title":{"rendered":"Investigators rule Tampa shooting a murder-suicide"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police say Amario Gilbert fatally shot a woman before turning the gun on himself.<\/p>\n

TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Following the shooting deaths of two people in Tampa last week<\/a>, investigators now say it was a murder-suicide.<\/p>\n

On the morning of Aug. 21, police responded to a home on North 15th Street.<\/p>\n

There, they found a woman in her mid-20s with a fatal gunshot wound along with 51-year-old Amario Gilbert with a self-inflicted gunshot wound.<\/p>\n


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Evidence shows the two knew each other and had gotten into a fight before Gilbert shot at the woman.<\/p>\n

Gilbert succumbed to his injuries shortly after police arrived.<\/p>\n

The female victim’s three young children were also inside the home at the time of the shooting. All of them were found safe.<\/p>\n

Tampa police are working to ensure the safety and privacy of the children. A previous report says they are in the care of family members.<\/p>\n

If you or someone you know is experiencing abuse, domestic violence, or struggling with mental health, help is available:<\/p>\n

Call 911\u00a0for any immediate emergency.Call 988\u00a0to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline.Call 813-247-SAFE (7233) to reach The Spring of Tampa Bay 24-hour crisis hotline for local domestic violence support.Call 800-500-1119 to reach the Florida Domestic Violence Hotline.Call 211\u00a0to reach the Crisis Center of Tampa Bay for additional health and community services. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say Amario Gilbert fatally shot a woman before turning the gun on himself. TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 Following…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":383906,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-383905","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\/383905","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=383905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383905\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/383906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=383905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=383905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=383905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}