{"id":133434,"date":"2024-04-25T09:13:54","date_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133434"},"modified":"2024-04-25T09:13:54","modified_gmt":"2024-04-25T13:13:54","slug":"tampa-police-arrest-suspect-in-fatal-moped-accident","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=133434","title":{"rendered":"Tampa Police Arrest Suspect in Fatal Moped Accident"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-133425\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NICHOLAS-HARRISON-JR.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NICHOLAS-HARRISON-JR.jpg 384w, https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/NICHOLAS-HARRISON-JR-128x160.jpg 128w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>NICHOLAS HARRISON, JR.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: center;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tampa Police officers arrested a 38-year-old Hispanic man who turned himself in as the suspect in a hit and run accident. At approximately 6:00 p.m., <strong>Nicholas Harrison, Jr.<\/strong> turned himself in at the Tampa Police<br \/>\nDistrict 3 office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At approximately 3:57 a. m. Friday, April 19, 2024, officers began investigating a fatal vehicle vs moped accident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The investigation revealed that the suspect was driving a 2007 Dodge Charger<br \/>\nand was traveling eastbound on E. Hillsborough Ave. The victim, a Black male, who was also traveling eastbound, was driving a moped. Both the defendant and victim were<br \/>\ntraveling in the inside lane when <strong>Harrison&#8217;s<\/strong> vehicle struck the rear of the<br \/>\nvictim&#8217;s moped. <strong>Harrison<\/strong> fled the scene and continued traveling eastbound on<br \/>\nE. Hillsborough Ave., with the moped lodged in the front bumper of his vehicle.<br \/>\nThe moped eventually dislodged and was located less than a mile away from the scene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Upon their arrival, officers located the victim on scene, where he was later<br \/>\npronounced deceased. He has not been identified.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 After turning himself in, <strong>Harrison<\/strong> was transported to Orient Road Jail and charged with one felony count of leaving the scene of a crash with death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Tampa Police Department reminds the community to stay on scene when involved in a crash. Once you leave the scene, you may face criminal charges,<br \/>\nespecially if the crash results in serious injury or death.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NICHOLAS HARRISON, JR. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Tampa Police officers arrested a 38-year-old Hispanic man who turned himself in as the suspect in a hit and run accident. At approximately 6:00 p.m., Nicholas Harrison, Jr. turned himself in at the Tampa Police District 3 office. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 At approximately 3:57 a. m. Friday, April 19, 2024, officers began [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88889,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133434","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\/88889"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133434"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133435,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133434\/revisions\/133435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}