{"id":12373,"date":"2012-01-19T15:32:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12373"},"modified":"2012-01-19T15:33:10","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T20:33:10","slug":"suspect-charged-with-2011-murder-of-16-year-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=12373","title":{"rendered":"Suspect Charged With 2011 Murder Of 16-Year- Old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Police Homicide Detectives have arrested a suspect in the November 2011 murder of a teenager.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives arrested <strong>Jose Guillermo Torres-Melvis<\/strong>, 19, on Wednesday morning, charging him with second-degree murder.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Torres-Melvis<\/strong> was charged with the shooting death of <strong>Jamarie Lavon Hodges<\/strong>, 16. Detectives received information that <strong>Torres-Melvis<\/strong> was a resident on River Resort Lane. They set up surveillance, and verified he was there.<\/p>\n<p>When <strong>Torres-Melvis<\/strong> left the home, he was arrested without incident.<\/p>\n<p>On November 6, 2011, a fight broke out in the 3900 block of Ellicott Street between a group of friends associated with <strong>Hodges<\/strong> and a group associated with <strong>Torres-Melvis<\/strong>. During the fight, detectives said one of <strong>Hodges\u2019s<\/strong> friends was robbed. <strong>Hodges<\/strong> was trying to help his friend when <strong>Torrres-Melvis<\/strong> allegedly pulled out a gun and shot him. He was transported to a local hospital where he died.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tampa Police Homicide Detectives have arrested a suspect in the November 2011 murder of a teenager. Detectives arrested Jose Guillermo Torres-Melvis, 19, on Wednesday morning, charging him with second-degree murder. Torres-Melvis was charged with the shooting death of Jamarie Lavon Hodges, 16. Detectives received information that Torres-Melvis was a resident on River Resort Lane. They [&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-12373","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\/12373","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=12373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12373\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}