Good Guy with a Gun #248: Tampa, FL

Note to criminals: When you climb through a stranger’s window at 4 AM, he won’t ask why. | Original incident: July 6, 2024

These posts are based on our Good Guy with a Gun calendar. Today’s post is essentially the same as the calendar version.

Around 4 AM in Tampa’s Palmetto Beach community, a man in his early 40s broke through a window into a house on the 1300 block of South Bermuda Boulevard.

The homeowner confronted and shot the intruder. First responders pronounced him dead at the scene.

That’s really all there is: One police report, repeated over many news outlets, with almost no detail other than the above. And this is for an incident that resulted in the death of the home invader.

The Good Guy with a Gun: Not a myth, just under-documented.

Sources

Primary

The Tampa press release is on the tampa.gov website.

News

These stories all echo the press release, with no additional information: WFLA 8, Tampa Bay News 10, Tampa Latest, Tampa Bay 28, West Orlando News, Tampa Free Press, and Fox 13.

2A / specialist media

Sean Holt at USACarry and aggregator Hoodline covered this story.