Street Racer Crashes During Police Chase Killing Four Outside Bar | Crime Alert 10AM 11.11.25

Four people are killed and at least 13 others injured when a speeding driver slammed into a crowd outside Bradley’s on 7th, a popular bar with the queer community in Tampa’s Ybor City district. A Michigan mother accused of killing her 3-year-old son to “make room” for a baby with her boyfriend has admitted to the crime. Drew Nelson reports.

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Crime Alert hourly update, breaking crime news Now. I'm Drew Nelson.
Four people are killed and at least thirteen others injured
when a speeding driver slams into a crowd outside Bradley's
on Seventh, a popular bar with the queer community in
Tampa's Ebor City District. Police identified the suspect as twenty
two year old Silas Sampson of Date City. He was

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allegedly fleeing from Florida Highway Patrol troopers after a failed
attempt to crash the fleeing car intentionally. Tampa Police Chief
Lee Burkhaw said the chase began around twelve thirty am
when two cars were spotted racing near Hannah and Nebraska Avenues.

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Two FHP units attempt the traffic stop on it and
the vehicle fleece and then they attempt the pitt maneuver.
After that, Unfortunately, this vehicle went on a high rate
of speed down Seventh Avenue.

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Moments later, sampson silver Toyota Camery jumped the curb at
North fifteenth Street, crashing into the patio of Bradley's. Striking
pedestrians gathered outside the bar and neighboring businesses including the
Copper Shaker and New York New York Pizza witness Howard
Hopkins said he was nearby when the impact occurred. Speaking
with our TV news partners at Fox thirteen. Turned around

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and here comes the car, jumps the curve, hits the
corner of the building, then comes into Bradley's patio. Tables
went everywhere, chairs went everywhere, some bodies went everywhere.

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It was pretty bad.

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Officers smashed a window and pulled Sampson out of the
car as people screamed for help. A gun reportedly fell
from his waistband, and troopers noted he smelled of alcohol
and had slurred speech. Sampson allegedly admitted he quote made
a mistake, told officers that he had killed someone, and
asked to be taken to jail. Police confirmed the victim's names.
Christina Marie Richards, aged twenty five, Lisa Charell Johnson forty one,

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Sherman Jones fifty three, and Marlon Anthony Collins fifty three.
Three died at the scene and a fourth later at
the hospital.

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They were out in Eboor having a good time, expecting
to go home safely, and a careless, reckless driver takes
everybody's lives in his hands.

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Mayor Jane Caster says the tragedy devastated the city and
the first responders who witnessed it. The owners of Bradley
say their hearts are broken, calling the bar a sanctuary
for Tampa's LGBTQ plus community. Sampson appeared before a Hillsboro
County judge and was denied bond. He faces four counts
of the hicular homicide and four counts of aggravated fleeing

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to elude with serious bodily injury or death, all first
degree felonies. His next court appearance is scheduled for Thursday morning.
Investigators say more than fifteen victims may have been struck
as patrons and pedestrians filled the sidewalks along Seventh Avenue
during the busy early morning rush. Surveillance and cell phone
videos showed tables, chairs, and debris scattered across the street

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as flashing lights filled the historic district. More crime man
Justice News After this Higan mother accused of killing her
three year old son to quote unquote make room for
a baby with her boyfriend, has admitted to the crime,

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ending a year's long investigation into one of Saint Clair
County's most disturbing cases. Amanda May Mason, aged thirty three,
pleaded guilty to second degree murder in the twenty eighteen
death of her son, Matthew Mason inside their home and
Port Huron Township. Babysitters discovered Matthew unresponsive in his bed
on February eighteenth of twenty eighteen, prompting an investigation that

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went cold for years. Authorities reopened the case this year
after what they called quote significant new developments, leading to
the arrests of Mason and her then boyfriend, Maurice Hoole,
now twenty eight. Investigators and prosecutors said the pair killed
Matthew as part of a plan to quote make room
for a child that the two of them could have together.
Assistant Prosecutor Joshua Sparling told the court that Hoole regularly

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beat the boy and that Mason hid his injuries from
child protective Services between twenty sixteen and eighteen. Sparling said
the child was lucky in his room for hours without
food or water, and died of blunt force trauma and
possible suffocation. During her plea hearing, Mason admitted to shoving
her son's head into a wall during what she described
as a quote military style time out. She told the

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judge she allowed an environment where Matthew was systematically abused
and later helped Houle conceal the manner of Matthew's death.
Court record show she also admitted to lying to investigators
and covering up earlier child Protective Services visits that could
have saved her son's life. Both Mason and Hull were
charged with first degree murder in April. They initially pleaded

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not guilty, but Mason changed her plea as part of
an agreement requiring her to testify against Hoole when his
trial begins early next year. Mason remains in custody at
the Saint Clair County Jail and faces up to life
when she is sentenced. For the latest crime and justice news,
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