{"id":418435,"date":"2026-10-04T12:02:43","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:02:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418435\/"},"modified":"2026-10-04T12:02:43","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T12:02:43","slug":"woman-dead-after-man-fires-gun-inside-vehicle-tampa-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/418435\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman dead after man fires gun inside vehicle, Tampa police say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Police are working to determine what led to a reported shooting that left a woman dead late Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">According to the Tampa Police Department, officers responded to the 4100 block of East Fowler Avenue just before 11:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police believe that a man and a woman, both in their early 70s and known to each other, were driving along Fowler Avenue when the man fired a gun. He then pulled into a business parking lot and stopped the vehicle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The passenger was struck in her upper body and died from her injuries at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Police took the man into custody, and investigators are currently interviewing him to determine what led to the shooting. The gun was taken into evidence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Officers did not release the man&#8217;s identity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This is an isolated incident, and there is no ongoing threat to the public, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<a data-ylk=\"slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wfla.com\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to WFLA.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Video above: See the week&#8217;s top headlines in Tampa Bay TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) \u2014 Police are working to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":418436,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-418435","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\/418435","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=418435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418435\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/418436"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}