{"id":417965,"date":"2026-10-03T20:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417965\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T20:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T20:06:08","slug":"woman-killed-after-driver-fires-gun-inside-car-in-tampa-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/417965\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman killed after driver fires gun inside car in Tampa: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A woman in her 70s died Saturday morning after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Tampa <\/a>police say a driver shot her inside a vehicle along East Fowler Avenue before pulling into a business parking lot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Tampa deadly shooting   <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">According to the Tampa Police Department, officers responded shortly before 11:30 a.m. to a report of a deadly shooting in the 4100 block of East Fowler Avenue.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Early information indicates a man and woman, both in their early 70s, were driving along Fowler Avenue when the man, who was driving, fired a gun before pulling into a business parking lot and stopping the vehicle, police said.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The woman, who was the passenger, was shot in the upper body. She died at the scene from her injuries, according to TPD.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police said the shooter is a white male in his early 70s. He was taken into custody and was being interviewed by investigators to determine what led to the shooting.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The gun was secured at the scene and taken into evidence. TPD said the man and woman knew each other.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">TPD said the shooting was an isolated incident and there is no ongoing threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Police have not released the names of the victim or the driver. Detectives have also not revealed what exactly led up to the shooting inside the car.<\/p>\n<p> Tampa police investigation <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-94395e58=\"\">What&#8217;s next:<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The investigation remains active, and police said it is still in its early stages. Additional information will be released as the investigation allows.<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was provided by the Tampa Police Department.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\/tampa\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TAMPA, Fla. &#8211; A woman in her 70s died Saturday morning after Tampa police say a driver shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":417966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[47,629,115,135,137,136,628],"class_list":["post-417965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","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\/417965","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=417965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/417965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/417966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=417965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=417965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=417965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}