{"id":220036,"date":"2026-03-25T17:16:11","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/220036\/"},"modified":"2026-03-25T17:16:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:16:11","slug":"man-arrested-in-texas-after-deadly-plant-city-shooting-deputies-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/220036\/","title":{"rendered":"Man arrested in Texas after deadly Plant City shooting, deputies say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A man has been arrested in Texas after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay.com\/news\/crime\/2026\/03\/23\/i4-shooting-entrance-ramp-branch-forbes-road\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:a shooting in Plant City;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;a shooting in Plant City&quot;}\" class=\"link \">a shooting in Plant City<\/a> left one person dead over the weekend, Hillsborough deputies said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">At about 4 a.m. Sunday, deputies received reports that \u201can individual had been shot multiple times\u201d at the intersection of the Interstate 4 entrance ramp and Branch Forbes Road, according to the sheriff\u2019s office. Deputies who responded to the scene found a man dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Detectives determined the shooting \u201cstemmed from an earlier disturbance involving several individuals at a nearby bar,\u201d the sheriff\u2019s office said in a news release Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cThe individuals later encountered each other again at a gas station, where eventually the situation escalated which led to the shooting at the intersection of Branch Forbes Road and Interstate 4,\u201d the news release states.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/9aef302d6be4b1fbd676baf2b5f3d41d.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">On Monday, investigators determined the suspect, Maico Carbajal, had fled Hillsborough County and was traveling west on Interstate 10. Carbajal, 36, was tracked through Alabama and Louisiana into Texas, where he was arrested and booked into the Chambers County Jail in Anahuac. He faces a charge of first-degree murder and is awaiting extradition to Hillsborough County.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cYou cannot outrun justice,\u201d Hillsborough Sheriff Chad Chronister said in the news release. \u201cOur detectives worked tirelessly, crossing state lines and coordinating with our partners to ensure this suspect was taken into custody.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The sheriff\u2019s office did not identify the man who was shot, and no further information was released.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been arrested in Texas after a shooting in Plant City left one person dead over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220037,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85777,81617,85776,27,29,28],"class_list":["post-220036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-forbes-road","tag-hillsborough-county","tag-plant-city","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220036"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220036\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}