{"id":16876,"date":"2012-09-18T16:13:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T20:13:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16876"},"modified":"2012-09-20T16:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T20:23:28","slug":"suspect-in-fatal-club-shooting-surrenders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=16876","title":{"rendered":"Suspect In Fatal Club Shooting Surren- ders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>BY IRIS B. HOLTON<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Sentinel City Editor<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Tampa teenager, wanted in connection with a murder at a local club, surrendered to police. The suspect had been identified and police had issued a warrant for his arrest.<br \/>\n<strong><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Bryan Jefferson<\/strong>, 18, was charged with second-degree murder. Police said <strong>Jefferson<\/strong> allegedly shot into the crowd during a fight outside the club, and fled the scene. <strong>Rickey S. Ligons<\/strong>, 24, was struck by gunfire.<\/p>\n<p>He was taken to Tampa General Hospital, where he died. Another person who police have not identified, was also hit by gunfire, but that person survived.<\/p>\n<p>According to police, the shooting took place last Friday outside Club Ice, 1704 N. 17th Street.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, the fight started inside the club and bouncers ejected several people. Two young women began fighting behind the club. Witnesses said <strong>Ligons<\/strong> became involved after a young man began fighting with one of the women and he (<strong>Ligons<\/strong>) tried to stop him.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ligons\u2019<\/strong> mother, <strong>Mrs. Odessa Marshall<\/strong> said her son was attempting to break up the fight when he was shot.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_16882\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Rickey-Ligons.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-16882\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-16882\" src=\"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/Rickey-Ligons-150x150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-16882\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rickey Ligons<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BY IRIS B. HOLTON Sentinel City Editor A Tampa teenager, wanted in connection with a murder at a local club, surrendered to police. The suspect had been identified and police had issued a warrant for his arrest. Bryan Jefferson, 18, was charged with second-degree murder. Police said Jefferson allegedly shot into the crowd during a [&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-16876","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\/16876","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=16876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}