A combat between two teams turned lethal in Florida when a capturing in a metropolis road resulted in two deaths and 18 individuals hospitalized early Sunday morning, police mentioned.
Officers responded to the capturing in Tampa simply earlier than 3 a.m. on the 1600 block of East seventh Avenue within the Ybor Metropolis space, Tampa Police Chief Lee Bercaw mentioned throughout a press convention on the scene.
The combat occurred in an space with a number of bars and golf equipment and there have been giant numbers of late evening revelers within the space on the time, Bercaw mentioned. Police weren’t instantly certain if the individuals concerned within the combat had been inside any of the bars earlier than the capturing.
It was a disturbance or a combat between two teams. And on this combat between two teams we had a whole lot of harmless individuals concerned that had been in the way in which, Bercaw mentioned.
He didn’t present particulars of the accidents suffered by the victims taken to space hospitals.
One suspect turned himself in to police, and investigators consider there have been at the very least two shooters concerned, Bercaw mentioned.
Police are nonetheless investigating the rationale for the combat between the 2 teams, he mentioned.
Officers had been on the scene on the time of the capturing however none had been injured, Bercaw mentioned.
