Posted on 09/06/2013 12:32:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
The man wanted for the series of home invasions in apartments near the USF Tampa campus has died from gunshot wounds after a shootout with police. Police captured 24 year old Charlie Christopher Bates on U.S. 301 near I-4 in Hillsborough County. This came after a chase, crash, and police shooting at Bates. He was reportedly shot several times. No officers are believed to be hurt. Bates faces a series of charges.
Hillsborough deputies say the incidents happened at the Cambridge Woods apartments, the Oaks apartments, and the Eagle's Point apartments north of USF. Four men were tied up and four women were raped.
In the Cambridge Woods attack, Larry McKinnon with the Sheriff's Office says their first word of the attack came when the female victims showed up at Florida Hospital. They went to the apartment and found four men in the process of freeing themselves.
Shortly after that attack, a woman who lives at the Eagle's Point apartments, inside the city of Tampa, says the man forced his way into her home. She pleaded with him to leave, according to Tampa police, and he did.
At the Oaks apartments, across 42nd Street from Cambridge Woods, he forced 25 people at a party into a bedroom at gunpoint, fired a shot into the ground and left. Then he fired at a man who was running into an apartment. None of the bullets struck the man.
In re: “There’s been a controversy over concealed carry on the USF campus for quite some time.”
Feel free to check out the Students for Concealed Carry page. We can use all the support we can get! :)
https://www.facebook.com/SCCBulls
Uh, I don't think this was on campus. It was in a private apartment area north of the campus.
Wonder if Dear Leader will come out and make a statement: "If I had a son......"
Thanks.
Nothing he does would surprise me anymore...
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