{"id":11223,"date":"2011-11-07T15:40:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11223"},"modified":"2011-11-07T15:49:48","modified_gmt":"2011-11-07T20:49:48","slug":"suspect-sought-in-murder-of-teen-killed-helping-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=11223","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Sought In Murder Of Teen Killed Helping Friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Sunday in the 3900 block of East Ellicott Street, a 16-year-old teenager was shot at least twice and later died at a local hospital.<\/p>\n

Tampa Police said Jamarie Lavon Hodges<\/strong> was shot across the street from his house.<\/p>\n

According to his family, Jamarie<\/strong> was inside his home with his brother, Jaylen<\/strong>, when he heard noises outside. According to witnesses, a close friend of Jamarie\u2019s<\/strong> named Poocho<\/strong>, was involved in a fight, and had been knocked out.<\/p>\n

Jamarie<\/strong> and Jaylen<\/strong> reportedly ran outside to aid Poocho<\/strong> when another person fired several shots from a handgun, striking Jamarie<\/strong> twice.<\/p>\n

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Jose Guillermo Torres-Melvin<\/p><\/div>\n

Tampa Police Homicide detectives have issued a warrant for the arrest of Jose Guillermo Torres-Melvis<\/strong>, 19, on a charge of first-degree murder.<\/p>\n

Jamarie<\/strong>, along with two of his brothers, Jaylen<\/strong> and Javon<\/strong>, lived with their grandmother, Mary Ann Reynolds<\/strong>, who has had custody of them since 2002.<\/p>\n

According to Ms. Reynolds<\/strong>, Jamarie<\/strong> had attended Middleton High School, and was trying hard to join the school\u2019s football program. \u201cHe really loved football and free-hand drawing,\u201d said Ms. Reynolds<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Ms. Reynolds<\/strong> said she wasn\u2019t home when the shooting occurred, but at a church function. \u201cI got a call, and came straight home. That\u2019s when I was told what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jamarie<\/strong> was known to put in a little work at Harmon\u2019s Funeral Home, and the owner, John Harmon<\/strong>, said Jamarie<\/strong> helped him recently with a funeral service.<\/p>\n

Jamarie<\/strong> was the second oldest of 4 boys, the youngest being 7-year-old Jimmie Jordan<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Jamarie<\/strong> had no insurance coverage at the time of his death, and anyone who wants to make a donation to help the family is asked to contact Harmon\u2019s Funeral Home at (813) 626-8600.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Sunday in the 3900 block of East Ellicott Street, a 16-year-old teenager was shot at least twice and later died at a local hospital. Tampa Police said Jamarie Lavon Hodges was shot across the street from his house. According to his family, Jamarie was inside his home with his brother, Jaylen, when he heard […]<\/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-11223","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\/11223","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=11223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}