A disagreement that began at a Tampa restaurant spilled into a white Chevrolet pickup truck, where police say a 74-year-old man fatally shot a woman he had known for more than 20 years.<\/p>\n
Tampa Police<\/a> identified the driver as Alan Barber, 74, and confirmed a woman, also in her 70s, was riding in the passenger seat on Oct. 3.<\/p>\n As Barber drove, the argument intensified. Police say he shot the woman, then pulled into the parking lot of a local business in the 4100 block of East Fowler Avenue.<\/p>\n Officers arrived, recovered the firearm, impounded the pickup as evidence, and took Barber into custody without incident before transporting him to Orient Road Jail on a second-degree murder charge.<\/p>\n Inside The Truck<\/p>\n A probable-cause affidavit obtained by Law&Crime<\/a> identified the woman as 74-year-old Barbara Susdorf.<\/p>\n Responding officers found Susdorf dead in the front passenger seat from a gunshot wound to the head.<\/p>\n Barber told police he and Susdorf had been together for more than 25 years and had recently discussed separating. Their dispute involved a home held in Susdorf’s name and money Barber believed he had contributed toward it.<\/p>\n According to Law&Crime’s account of the affidavit, Barber told police he snapped during the argument before pointing a gun at Susdorf and firing. Barber called 911 around 11:30 a.m. after the shooting.<\/p>\n A Wider Problem<\/p>\n Acting Tampa Police Chief Brett Owen said no disagreement should end with the loss of a life.<\/p>\n A Tampa Police victim advocate was assigned to help connect Susdorf’s family and loved ones with available resources.<\/p>\n Nationally, Everytown Research<\/a>, analyzing CDC data from 2020 through 2023, found that more than 70 women each month are shot and killed by a current or former intimate partner. Women accounted for 77% of intimate-partner firearm homicide victims in that analysis.<\/p>\n Anyone experiencing or affected by domestic violence in Florida can contact the Florida Domestic Violence Hotline<\/a> at 1-800-500-1119. The statewide hotline operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and can connect callers with support, safety planning, and local domestic violence services.<\/p>\n If you want more stories like this, follow Guessing Headlights<\/a> on <\/a>Yahoo<\/a> so you don’t miss what’s coming next.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A disagreement that began at a Tampa restaurant spilled into a white Chevrolet pickup truck, where police say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":422194,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-422193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422193","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=422193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/422194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=422193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=422193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=422193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}