{"id":9165,"date":"2011-08-15T16:39:06","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T20:39:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9165"},"modified":"2011-11-09T16:47:35","modified_gmt":"2011-11-09T21:47:35","slug":"death-threats-made-before-funeral-of-murdered-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9165","title":{"rendered":"Death Threats Made Before Funeral Of Murdered Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Death threats targeted at funeral attendees of a young man murdered at a party in Riverview a few weeks ago, prompted additional security this past weekend. Security was increased at both the wake and funeral of <strong>Craig Thompson, Jr.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Police presence was visible on Friday evening for <strong>Thompson\u2019s<\/strong> wake at Aikens Funeral, as well as for his funeral on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>When contacted by the <em>Sentinel<\/em>, his father, <strong>Craig Thompson, Sr<\/strong>., stated that he had heard about the threats, but didn\u2019t know who made them or why. He stated that he didn\u2019t receive any threats himself.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wasn\u2019t worried because there were threats made at <strong>Iesha\u2019s<\/strong> (<strong>Washington<\/strong>) funeral, too. It\u2019s really sad because we were preparing for the funeral. We are in mourning. To do something like that is ridiculous and didn\u2019t make any sense. I think to do something like that was a cowardice act,\u201d <strong>Thompson<\/strong> said.<\/p>\n<p>He further said that he had gone for the family viewing earlier in the day and noticed that a K9 unit was stationed on North Bay Street near the funeral home and another unit was parked across the street. Two deputies were inside of the funeral home for the wake.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Thompson<\/strong> said a trust fund has already been established for his unborn grandchild and the family is in the process of establishing another.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this month, <strong>Ms. Washington<\/strong> and <strong>Mr. Thompson<\/strong> were both killed after attending a party at a clubhouse at 5020 Highway 41 South, in Riverview, owned by the Local 439 of the International Chemical Workers Union. <strong>[private]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Deputies said unidentified suspects began shooting after a fight broke out and one the attendees was ordered to leave by security. A short time later, two men allegedly began shooting into the crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The body of <strong>Ms. Washington<\/strong>, 18, was discovered on the roadway. <strong>Thompson<\/strong> had been shot as well and died at Tampa General Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>Detectives arrested 21-year-old <strong>Tyrell Sidney Bragg<\/strong> and charged him with second-degree murder in the death of <strong>Ms. Washington<\/strong>. Police also recovered a .380 handgun believed to be the murder weapon.<\/p>\n<p>Police believe a second shooter was responsible for <strong>Thompson\u2019s<\/strong> death because of shell casing from a different type weapon. However, no other suspects have been arrested. The investigation is continuing. <strong>[\/private]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>City Editor Iris B. Holton can be contacted at (813) 248-1921; or emailed at iholton@flsentinel.com.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Death threats targeted at funeral attendees of a young man murdered at a party in Riverview a few weeks ago, prompted additional security this past weekend. Security was increased at both the wake and funeral of Craig Thompson, Jr. Police presence was visible on Friday evening for Thompson\u2019s wake at Aikens Funeral, as well as [&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-9165","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\/9165","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=9165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}