Tampa Police Release Video of Shooting Suspect, Body-Cam, and Aviation Unit Video.
While conducting a felony traffic stop, Tampa Police Officers came under fire by a male subject who had also fired a gun outside a local club on Busch Boulevard. Officers returned fire, striking and killing the subject.
On Thursday, June 29, 2023, at 10:50 p.m., Tampa Police Officers responded to the 3700 block of Busch Boulevard in reference to the report of an armed subject firing shots from a gray Kia Soul.
Patrol officers and the Tampa Police Aviation Unit spotted the vehicle headed southbound on N. 40th Street.
Just before 11:00 p.m., officers attempted a felony traffic stop at the intersection of N. 40th Street and E. 32nd Avenue, where the passenger, 42-year-old black male Laquincy Dartez Ward (dob 12/18/1980), exited the vehicle and fired multiple rounds at officers, striking the police car multiple times.
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