{"id":418007,"date":"2026-10-03T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418007\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T21:22:09","slug":"driver-shoots-kills-passenger-on-tampa-roadway-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418007\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver shoots, kills passenger on Tampa roadway: Police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police say the man shot the woman before he pulled into a business parking lot near the University of South Florida. The woman died at the scene.<\/p>\n<p>TAMPA, Fla. \u2014 A woman is dead after a shooting inside a vehicle in Tampa on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Tampa police say it happened just before 11:30 a.m. in the 4100 block of East Fowler Avenue, near the University of South Florida campus.<\/p>\n<p>According to investigators, a man in his early 70s was driving down Fowler Avenue with a woman who was also in her early 70s. They say the man shot the woman before pulling into the parking lot of a nearby business.<\/p>\n<p>The woman was shot in the upper body and pronounced dead at the scene. Officers took the man into custody and took the gun as evidence.<\/p>\n<p>As of 3 p.m. Saturday, investigators are interviewing the man to figure out what led up to the shooting. They say this was an isolated incident and there is no further threat to the public.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story. More details will be shared as they become available.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police say the man shot the woman before he pulled into a business parking lot near the University&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-418007","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\/418007","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=418007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}