Posted on 07/19/2020 11:53:01 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
Three best friends were found slain in a “horrific scene” at a Florida lake after one of them called his father for help, authorities said.
Damion Tillman, 23, Keven Springfield, 30, and Brandon Rollins, 27, had planned to go night fishing Friday at Lake Streety in Frostproof, about 70 miles south of Orlando, according to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office.
Sheriff Grady Judd said they believe Tillman arrived first at the lake to go out on a catfish expedition.
When Rollins and Springfield arrived, they saw Tillman being beaten and were shot by one or more of his attackers, authorities said.
Rollins was still conscious when the assailants left and called his father, begging, “Help,” according to Judd.
His dad rushed to the lake about 10 minutes away but forgot his cellphone in a scramble to help his son.
“When I got there, I was looking for my son. It was a mess,” his father, Cyril Rollins, told TV news station WFLA.
“I found my son. I was holding him. He was telling me what happened, but I was too shocked to know what was going on.”
The father drove to a nearby convenience store, where the clerk called 911.
But by the time help arrived, all three men had died from their injuries, authorities said.
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Congrats, Sherlock.
OK, then why didn’t he scoop up his still alive son and take him?
Nope all white.Source?
There is a lot of speculation flying around. Someone set up a FB page on this alone. There are some plausible theories into what really happened. The most common is that first guy was met and confronted by girlfriend’s ex and his crew. The other two showed up while the fist guy was getting beat and got in the middle and then someone started shooting.
The consensus is officials probably know way more than they have said.
They just increased the award for info to $30,000.
I’m sure he would have been very apprehensive about picking him up. No doubt he was in very bad shape. I saw an article with a pic of dad and he looks to be older and in not great shape.
Bottom line, this story is VERY sad. There are some very wicked people in this world.
This is Frostproof, FL. Not a lot doing on around there. Boonies.
Unless these guys stumbled onto a grow around the lake I’d be surprised why they were shot
BINGO! I called it once again!
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Few details here but my hunch is they knew or there was a link or connection between the killers and the decedents.
24 posted on 7/19/2020, 12:25:17 PM by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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And the connection is the shooter stated Kevin, one of the victims, took or stole the engine from his truck at some earlier date.
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