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Hank Earl Carr (January 31, 1968 – May 19, 1998) [1] was a convicted criminal who, on May 19, 1998, shot his girlfriend's four-year-old son with a rifle, was arrested, and then escaped from his handcuffs and killed two Tampa detectives and a Florida state trooper.
The incident began when an FHP trooper tried to make a traffic stop and the car drove away, leading to a chase. The vehicle was stopped off 16th Road East in a parking lot at the Hammock Beach Resort.
Officers attempted to stop his vehicle and became wedged underneath his truck and was dragged before both cars stopped and Blunk opened fire on officers and ran from the scene. He was discovered six hours later by officers, which resulted in a ninety-minute standoff and Blunk being shot and killed by police.
The driver, a 39-year-old man from St. Petersburg, was in a white Chevrolet Camaro when a trooper clocked him speeding, according to a March 3 arrest affidavit from the FHP. The trooper turned on ...
Michael Anthony Addison, 30, of Lauderdale Lakes, faces five charges in connection with the deaths of a Florida Highway Patrol trooper and a truck driver.
The Florida Highway Patrol (FHP) is a division of the Florida Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles. It is Florida's highway patrol and is the primary law enforcement agency charged with investigating traffic crashes and criminal laws on the state's highways .
A procession Monday will escort the body of an FHP Trooper, who died along with a truck driver, to a funeral home in Port St. Lucie, officials said. Fallen FHP Trooper's body to be taken to ...
The two officers at the scene were placed on administrative leave and an investigation was started. [ 5 ] A video was released by the police in which a police officer of similar height and build to Carter shows how Carter could have shot himself while handcuffed in a police car. [ 1 ]