Tampa Police have arrested a man for seriously injuring his stepfather during a violent struggle.<\/p>\n
The suspect, James Archie<\/strong>, 34, was released from a drug rehabilitation program and went to live with his mother, Hazel Fann,<\/strong> 54, and stepfather, Daniel Fann<\/strong>, 61.<\/p>\n His parents suspected him of using drugs again and refused to give him money. Police said Archie<\/strong> became confrontational with his parents and they asked him to leave their home on the night of July 14th. He reportedly left the house, but later returned through an unlocked bedroom window.<\/p>\n Once inside, police said Archie<\/strong> overheard his mother talking about him and he became enraged. Archie<\/strong> confronted his mother and hit her repeatedly, knocking her down to the floor.<\/p>\n Mr. Fann<\/strong>, who is partially paralyzed, tried to help her, and police said Archie<\/strong> repeatedly beat Mr. Fann<\/strong> in the head with his mother\u2019s walking cane. He kicked Mr. Fann<\/strong> while he was lying on the ground unconscious, police said.<\/p>\n Archie<\/strong> then reportedly grabbed a knife and threatened to kill his mother if she did not unlock the burglar bars so he could leave. Out of fear, she complied and Archie<\/strong> fled.<\/p>\n During the struggle, Mrs. Fann<\/strong> was able to call 9-1-1, before Archie<\/strong> broke her phone. An officer familiar with Archie<\/strong> responded to the scene and was able to get information about where Archie <\/strong>was located. Archie<\/strong> was found at 26th Street and Lake Avenue and was arrested. Police said he was uncooperative and threatened to harm the detectives. He eventually had to be restrained before he could be transported to jail.<\/p>\n Daniel Fann<\/strong> was hospitalized with life threatening injuries. He is currently in critical condition.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Tampa Police have arrested a man for seriously injuring his stepfather during a violent struggle. The suspect, James Archie, 34, was released from a drug rehabilitation program and went to live with his mother, Hazel Fann, 54, and stepfather, Daniel Fann, 61. His parents suspected him of using drugs again and refused to give him […]<\/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-8446","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\/8446","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=8446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}