{"id":10471,"date":"2011-10-06T15:46:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:46:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10471"},"modified":"2011-10-06T15:46:09","modified_gmt":"2011-10-06T19:46:09","slug":"middleton-student-killed-in-tragic-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=10471","title":{"rendered":"Middleton Student Killed In Tragic Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ms. Bernice Jackson-Frazier<\/strong> said her granddaughter,<strong> Shenika Davis<\/strong>, was a sweet girl and always helped her out.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe sat together a lot and she\u2019d help me clean up. We were together Tuesday evening, and she stayed until I went to bed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That was the last time <strong>Ms. Jackson-Frazier<\/strong> saw her granddaughter.<\/p>\n<p>According to Tampa Police,<strong> Shenika<\/strong>, 15, was walking to Middleton High School early Wednesday morning. At 6:35 a. m., she was crossing Hillsborough Avenue near the railroad tracks between 22nd Street and 30th Street when she was hit by a 1993 GMC Sierra truck driven by <strong>Tommy Murphy<\/strong>, 46. After being hit by <strong>Murphy<\/strong>, <strong>Shenika<\/strong> was allegedly dragged across the railroad tracks by a second vehicle.\u00a0 She was pronounced dead at the scene.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Truck-That-Hit-Student.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-10475\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/Truck-That-Hit-Student-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Murphy<\/strong> told officials later he did not see <strong>Davis<\/strong> as she was wearing dark clothing. Police said <strong>Murphy<\/strong> will not be cited.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Jackson-Frazier<\/strong> said <strong>Shenika<\/strong> was looking forward to her Sweet 16 birthday next week, and was excited.<\/p>\n<p>This was <strong>Davis\u2019<\/strong> first year at Middleton, after attending Sligh Junior High last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ms. Jackson-Frazier<\/strong> said she\u2019ll miss the visits from her granddaughter. \u201cShe came to my house a lot, and she loved just sitting and talking with me. We had a natural love for each other, and she was very caring. One of her teachers came by and is helping us set up a funeral home to accept donations for her service. She said so many great things about <strong>Shenika<\/strong>, and I started crying.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Anyone interested in making a donation towards the services for <strong>Shenika Davis<\/strong> should contact Middleton High School at (813) 233-3360.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ms. Bernice Jackson-Frazier said her granddaughter, Shenika Davis, was a sweet girl and always helped her out. \u201cWe sat together a lot and she\u2019d help me clean up. We were together Tuesday evening, and she stayed until I went to bed.\u201d That was the last time Ms. Jackson-Frazier saw her granddaughter. According to Tampa Police, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}