Overview
- Police say a TPD air unit tracked a silver sedan previously observed street racing before it exited I-275 toward Ybor City.
- Troopers attempted an unsuccessful PIT maneuver near Nebraska and Palm and disengaged as the vehicle reached 7th Avenue.
- The car struck people outside Bradley’s on 7th around 12:45 a.m., leaving four dead at the scene or hospital and 11 others injured.
- The driver, identified as 22-year-old Silas Sampson, was detained at the scene and booked into the Hillsborough County jail.
- Court records show four counts of vehicular homicide and four counts of aggravated fleeing or eluding, and officials say all 15 victims were adults with no evidence the bar was targeted.