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BRANDON, Fla. – A 16-year-old was arrested on a manslaughter charge in connection with the deadly shooting of a 15-year-old inside a Dick’s House of Sport fitting room at the Brandon Exchange shopping mall earlier this year, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n
Brandon mall deadly shooting investigation <\/p>\n
The backstory:<\/p>\n
The shooting happened on July 10 at about 4:28 p.m., when HCSO’s 911 Dispatch Center received a report of a shooting inside Dick’s House of Sport at the Brandon Exchange mall.<\/p>\n
Deputies arrived within minutes and found Jaden Law, 15, dead inside a fitting room.<\/p>\n
PREVIOUS: Brandon mall shooting: 1 found dead inside Dick’s store fitting room, 2 detained<\/a><\/p>\n The Medical Examiner’s Office later determined Law died from a single gunshot wound and classified his death as a homicide, according to HCSO.<\/p>\n Courtesy: Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office <\/p>\n Detectives learned Ahmad Webb, 16, and Law were among three juveniles who entered the store together and went into a fitting room, the sheriff’s office said.<\/p>\n Surveillance video showed Webb leaving the fitting room area shortly after employees reported hearing a gunshot, according to investigators.<\/p>\n Firearm recovered <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n On July 11, HCSO’s Dive Team recovered a firearm from a retention pond south of the Brandon Exchange.<\/p>\n Laboratory and ballistic testing later confirmed the firearm was used in the shooting, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n Webb faces a charge of manslaughter with a weapon in connection with the death of Law, HCSO said.<\/p>\n The State Attorney’s Office approved the charge Monday following an extensive investigation, according to the sheriff’s office.<\/p>\n The case remains under investigation, according to HCSO.<\/p>\n Sheriff speaks about manslaughter charge <\/p>\n What they’re saying:<\/p>\n “This investigation has never stopped,” Hillsborough County Sheriff Chad Chronister said. “Our detectives have worked diligently to uncover the facts surrounding Jaden Law’s death, and today, we are holding a 16-year-old accountable with a manslaughter charge. Thank you to the detectives for your commitment to this case and for your relentless and diligent work to bring justice to the victim.”<\/p>\n Shooting motive details <\/p>\n What we don’t know:<\/p>\n The sheriff’s office did not say what led to the gun being fired inside the fitting room or who originally brought the firearm into the store.\u00a0<\/p>\n Authorities did not identify the third juvenile who walked into the fitting room with Webb and Law.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: The information in this story was provided by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.<\/p>\n Hillsborough County<\/a>Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRANDON, Fla. – A 16-year-old was arrested on a manslaughter charge in connection with the deadly shooting of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[630,47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-400663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-crime-publicsafety","tag-fl","tag-hillsborough","tag-news","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400663","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=400663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/webb-mug-9.15.jpg\")
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