{"id":445128,"date":"2026-11-02T14:40:12","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445128\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T14:40:12","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T14:40:12","slug":"hillsborough-sheriff-urges-partygoers-to-break-silence-4-years-after-teen-was-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/445128\/","title":{"rendered":"Hillsborough sheriff urges partygoers to break silence 4 years after teen was killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/laci-gilileo-main.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"764\" height=\"432\" loading=\"eager\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-v-31bc2d2e=\"\"\/> article    <\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">THONOTOSASSA, Fla. &#8211; \u00a0Hillsborough County sheriff&#8217;s detectives are renewing their plea for tips to identify whoever <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/news\/who-killed-laci-gilileo-deputies-ask-for-help-as-bloomingdale-high-school-students-case-goes-cold\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">shot and killed 15-year-old Laci Gilileo during a large Halloween party four years ago.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>   Harney Road house party <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Deputies responded on Nov. 1, 2022, to a home along the 9000 block of Harney Road, where authorities say an argument broke out during a costume party of roughly 100 people and gunfire erupted shortly after 2 a.m.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Investigators said Gilileo, who attended the Halloween party in Thonotosassa, was found shot at the Petrol Mart gas station at 11511 US 301 before dying at a hospital.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/vlcsnap-2026-11-02-07h28m08s581.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-1fc0918c=\"\">Laci Gilileo was killed on in 2022. Image is courtesy of the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">First responders also found an injured 19-year-old man who was hospitalized and expected to recover.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Halloween shooting suspect search <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What we don&#8217;t know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Investigators have not identified the person or persons responsible for firing the shots that night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Detectives also do not know the identities of multiple partygoers who were present during the confrontation but never came forward to report what they heard or saw.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Chaos on Harney Road <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What they&#8217;re saying:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Neighbors described hearing two separate barrages of gunfire before seeing panicked partygoers flee into the night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">An anonymous guest told FOX 13 the crowd included teenagers up to people around 30 years old, noting the atmosphere shifted late into the morning before a fight broke out.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Sheriff Chad Chronister said in a statement: &#8220;Four years have passed, but this family&#8217;s grief over losing their daughter has not. I urge anyone with information to please call our detectives.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/vlcsnap-2026-11-02-07h28m22s251.jpg\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" width=\"932\" height=\"524\" data-v-1fc0918c=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-1fc0918c=\"\">Emergency vehicle and first responders outside a gas station where Gilileo was found suffering from gunshot wounds in 2022.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  Deputies ask for help solving the case <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WTVT\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">What you can do:<\/p>\n<p data-v-a97c31c4=\"\">Anyone who knows anything about the shooting, regardless of how minor it may seem, is urged to contact the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office at (813) 247-8200.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: The information in this story was gathered from the Hillsborough County Sheriff&#8217;s Office, which provided investigative details and statements regarding the homicide case, as well as previous FOX 13 News reports and interviews conducted with an anonymous partygoer and statements from neighborhood residents.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/hillsborough\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hillsborough County<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox13news.com\/tag\/crime-publicsafety\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-a97c31c4=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Crime and Public Safety<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article THONOTOSASSA, Fla. &#8211; \u00a0Hillsborough County sheriff&#8217;s detectives are renewing their plea for tips to identify whoever shot&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":445129,"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-445128","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\/445128","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=445128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/445128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/445129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=445128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=445128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=445128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}