Police are currently searching for a man in connection with a homicide. The incident took place Friday evening in the 500 block of 26th Avenue, South, in St. Petersburg.<\/p>\n
According to police, Ms. Felicia Celeste Vickers<\/strong>, 21, was in a car, outside the residence Friday evening shortly before 12:45 a.m., when the shooting occurred. Ms. Vickers<\/strong> was a passenger in a vehicle with several other people. The people in the vehicle reportedly stopped in front of the residence of Morris Vernell Hires, III,<\/strong> to purchase drugs.<\/p>\n Hires was standing outside of the vehicle when he became involved in an argument with one of the other occupants. At some point, Hires allegedly produced a handgun and shot into the vehicle, striking Ms. Vickers<\/strong>.<\/p>\n The occupants of the vehicle drove off before police arrived, but took Ms. Vickers<\/strong> to Bayfront Medical Center, and left. Ms. Vickers<\/strong> died from her injuries at approximately 3:30 p.m., Friday.<\/p>\n During the course of the investigation, police were able to identify the other people with Ms. Vickers<\/strong> and interview them. Hires<\/strong> is described as a Black man, about 5\u20197\u201d, and weighing about 135 pounds. He has a tattoo on his right forearm of the letters MOE surrounded by flames.<\/p>\n Police said Hires<\/strong> also uses the alias of Antonio Baker<\/strong> and Malcolm Myey.<\/strong> He is considered armed and dangerous. Detectives are asking anyone with information to contact Detective Kenneth Miller at (727) 892-5916, or the police non-emergency number at (727) 893-7780.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Police are currently searching for a man in connection with a homicide. The incident took place Friday evening in the 500 block of 26th Avenue, South, in St. Petersburg. According to police, Ms. Felicia Celeste Vickers, 21, was in a car, outside the residence Friday evening shortly before 12:45 a.m., when the shooting occurred. Ms. […]<\/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-20081","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\/20081","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=20081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20081\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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