{"id":16655,"date":"2012-09-06T15:45:05","date_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16655"},"modified":"2012-09-06T15:45:05","modified_gmt":"2012-09-06T19:45:05","slug":"no-suspect-yet-in-temple-terrace-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16655","title":{"rendered":"No Suspect Yet In Temple Terrace Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>At 5 a. m. Tuesday morning, <strong>Jobree Platt<\/strong>, 31, and his cousin were returning to the cousins apartment at the Village Oaks Complex after a night at the Seminole Casino.<\/p>\n<p>Temple Terrace Police reported that <strong>Platt<\/strong> and his cousin were confronted by a man wearing a black ski mask and armed with a handgun in the hallway near the cousin\u2019s apartment. Shots were fired, and <strong>Platt<\/strong> fell to the ground, wounded. The gunman fled and <strong>Platt\u2019s<\/strong> cousin called 9-1-1.<\/p>\n<p>Police said another cousin, <strong>Jerron Brown<\/strong>, 29, heard the gunshots from the second floor and ran outside. He heard his cousin on the phone frantically calling for an ambulance. He ran to <strong>Platt\u2019s<\/strong> side and talked to him as he clung to life.<\/p>\n<p>When police arrived, they asked<strong> Brown<\/strong> to step aside, and seconds later, <strong>Platt<\/strong> was pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p>Police did not report how many shots were fired, or where <strong>Platt<\/strong> was shot. The only description released of the gunman was that he was a Black male, 6\u20194\u201d tall, and wearing a black ski mask.<\/p>\n<p>Police haven\u2019t established a motive for the shooting, but did say the gunman may have followed the pair home from the casino.<\/p>\n<p>According to his Facebook page,<strong> Platt<\/strong>, who lived in Lutz, graduated from Charlotte High School in 1999 in his hometown of Punta Gorda, Florida. He was awarded a $1,000 scholarship, and later attended and graduated from Tallahassee Community College in 2002. He was employed at Makin Ends Meet at the International Plaza.<\/p>\n<p>Crime Stoppers is offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information that leads to the arrest and identification of the suspect in this case. Anyone with information is asked to call 1-800-873-8477.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 5 a. m. Tuesday morning, Jobree Platt, 31, and his cousin were returning to the cousins apartment at the Village Oaks Complex after a night at the Seminole Casino. Temple Terrace Police reported that Platt and his cousin were confronted by a man wearing a black ski mask and armed with a handgun in [&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-16655","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\/16655","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=16655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}