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TAMPA, Fla. – Police escorted children to school Monday and a city bus changed up its usual route as a neighborhood near downtown Tampa feared a serial killer may be on the loose.
In the last two weeks, three people have been shot to death within a 1-mile (1.6-kilometer) radius in the normally quiet Seminole Heights neighborhood. Police believe the shootings are linked by proximity and time frame, but they don’t have a motive or a suspect.
All three victims, who didn’t know each other, rode the bus and were alone when they were shot on the street. None of the victims were robbed.
“I’m afraid,” said Maria Maldonado, who lives near the scene of two of the shootings that happened about 300 yards apart. The other was less than a mile away.
Maldonado won’t let her 7-year-old son play in the yard.
“We don’t open the door or nothing. A lot of people are scared. I’m scared for my son, for the neighborhood,” she said.
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