At 1:23 a. m. Sunday, Tampa Police were called to the area of East Chelsea and Booker T. Drive after a 9-1-1 call was made of a male that had been shot.<\/p>\n
When officers arrived, they found a young Black male lying the driveway of a home with a gunshot wound to the head. He was transported to a local hospital and pronounced dead on arrival.<\/p>\n
The young male was later identified as 17-year-old Andrew Hancock, III.<\/strong><\/p>\n According to his father, Andrew Hancock, Sr.<\/strong>, his son and a friend had been tussling over a gun when it discharged and struck Hancock<\/strong> in the head. Hancock said his son was a student at Chamberlain High School, and was looking forward to his school\u2019s upcoming Homecoming Day celebration. \u201cHe had just taken his senior class photos, and was excited about graduating and joining the U. S. Army.\u201d Hancock<\/strong> said his son had just recently reunited with his older brother after three years, and the two were planning to spend a lot of time together. \u201cAndrew<\/strong> loved being with his brother and sisters, and sports.<\/p>\n \u201cHe had made some mistakes in his life, but was really doing everything right. He worked at a local Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, and enjoyed his job.\u201d Mr. Hancock<\/strong> said his son had spent the weekend at his friend\u2019s house.<\/p>\n The family has asked Aden Funeral Home to help them with arrangements. Hancock<\/strong> said the family had no insurance on Andrew<\/strong> at the time of his death, and if anyone wants to help with funeral arrangements, call him at (813) 770-1480.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" At 1:23 a. m. Sunday, Tampa Police were called to the area of East Chelsea and Booker T. Drive after a 9-1-1 call was made of a male that had been shot. When officers arrived, they found a young Black male lying the driveway of a home with a gunshot wound to the head. He […]<\/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-17001","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\/17001","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=17001"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17001\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nPolice are investigating the incident as an accidental shooting at this time.<\/p>\n
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