This is such a heart breaking story especially since it hits close to home. As you know I live in St. Petersburg which is in the Tampa Bay Area. This morning, the Tampa police Department tells us that a dead body was found outside a church. Reports tell us that the body found, was of a woman who has not been identified at this time.
Woman's Body Found Outside Of A Tampa Bay Church
According to Yahoo News, a woman's body was found early Monday morning outside of a Tampa Bay church. Officers say they found the unidentified woman body at the 5700 block of North Nebraska Avenue at about 8 in the morning. "Iglesia de Dios Church Of God" in Tampa is where she was found outside of.
According to the Tampa Police Department, the victim had upper body trauma. Investigators however are still working to find out what happened to her. Again the woman's identity will not be released until her next-of-kin are notified. If you have any information or tips on what happened please call Crime stoppers at 800-873-TIPS (8477) or the Tampa Police Department at 813-231-6130.
See Something, Say Something
Hopefully we as a community will come together and help police find out what happened to this woman. If you are out there and you have information, please contact the authorities asap. We owe it to her family to bring her killers to justice.
There was a similar incident that happened in my former city but the victim was a child. There were actually people who knew and saw what happened, but they were afraid to speak up. If it was your family member, you would want people to speak up.
Hopefully there are surveillance cameras in the area that were able to capture what happened. Praying that they find out what happened to this woman and why she was left outside of a church like that. If you have an update before I do, feel free to email me Babs@wild941.com.
Which Florida City Made The List With Highest Murder Rates In U.S.
There's lots to love about the Sunshine State, but we're also notorious for the craziest crimes. One Florida city even ranked in the top 15 for highest murder rates in America. It's not really a list we love to see Florida on, but we can't say we're not surprised with all the insane stuff that happens here.
Our friends at neighboorhoodscout.com ranked the top 30 cities in the country with the highest murder rates per 1,000 residents. They condensed their research by including cities with 25,000 or more people. They collected their data by the number of murders reported to the FBI to have occurred in each city, and the population of each city. The city population data comes straight from the US Bureau of the Census at the time of each analysis. For instance, the 2022 list population uses 2020 population figures. The 2021 list uses 2019 figures, and so forth.
There were 14 new cities making the list this year. "The newcomer on this list with the highest murder rate is Saginaw, MI. The number of murders in Saginaw more than doubled from the previous year." Thankfully (and surprisingly) only one Florida city was ranked in the research.
Here's the top 15 cities with the highest murder rate. Click here to see the full list.
