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U.S.F Area Crime Spree Suspect is Dead after Police Shootout
970WFLA ^ | 9/6/13

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: tampa; usf
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Video at link. Amazingly, while the Tampa PD was looking for this thug, earlier reports actually mentioned his race. There's been a controversy over concealed carry on the USF campus for quite some time.
1 posted on 09/06/2013 12:32:26 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
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2 posted on 09/06/2013 12:35:04 PM PDT by jimbo123
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Sons Of Barack’S!


3 posted on 09/06/2013 12:35:55 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Are Marines required to salute Al Qaeda yet?)
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To: Impala64ssa

Video is cut off to short.


4 posted on 09/06/2013 12:36:28 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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Wolf among the sheep. And the sheep were bleating loud.

FOUR GUYS in the room and he scared them all.


5 posted on 09/06/2013 12:38:20 PM PDT by Old Sarge (Opinions are like orgasms: only mine count, and I couldn't care less if you have one...)
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"Bates faces a series of charges."

Not anymore he doesn't.

6 posted on 09/06/2013 12:39:40 PM PDT by muir_redwoods (Don't fire until you see the blue of their helmets)
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USF? I guess we classify this yute as “college bound”.
7 posted on 09/06/2013 12:39:45 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Join the Democrats, it's not Fascism when WE do it, and the Constitution and law mean what WE say.)
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Another thread had a guy with tattoo’s all over his face. Is this a different guy?


8 posted on 09/06/2013 12:41:14 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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Different crime. The tattoo guy committed a crime spree in Nebraska. This guy committed a crime spree in Florida.


9 posted on 09/06/2013 12:42:46 PM PDT by jimbo123
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So was this refugee from dumbassistan’s life. Maybe they’ll want to name an asteroid after him ala trayboi marteen. Or at least a hemmorhoid. (SP)


10 posted on 09/06/2013 12:46:02 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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They’re gonna get angel corey on the case to try him post mortem. She should have great success with that one too.


11 posted on 09/06/2013 12:47:32 PM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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From another article:
At a news conference after Bates' death, Sheriff David Gee said detectives were investigating claims apparently made by Bates to one of the victims -- that Bates had murdered someone earlier in the day.

Detectives have a cell phone that may have come from the murder victim. Their investigation continues.

Good riddance to him. Cops did an outstanding job on this one.
12 posted on 09/06/2013 1:04:27 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Yeah, I was going to comment on that...does anyone proof read anymore?


13 posted on 09/06/2013 1:06:36 PM PDT by memyselfandi59
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Thanks


14 posted on 09/06/2013 1:10:11 PM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Tastes like Heaven, Burns like Hell! Mmmmmm. What is it?)
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I’m chatting online with a friend who was at the scene a few cars behind. She is pretty shook up.


15 posted on 09/06/2013 1:11:03 PM PDT by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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Bates faces a series of charges.

Not as serious as the ones he's facing now..............

16 posted on 09/06/2013 1:15:29 PM PDT by Red Badger (It is dangerous to be right in matters where established men are wrong. .....Voltaire)
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This is the video ya want to watch...Not that sugarcoated version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJgIzU1CaYM


17 posted on 09/06/2013 1:41:52 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Try this non-sugar coated version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJgIzU1CaYM


18 posted on 09/06/2013 1:50:06 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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Cut down in the prime of his life....

Think of the hundreds of crimes that will never be committed...

The hundreds of thousands in tax dollars NOT spend by the court system for this thug...

probation officers and policemen spared having to deal with him... victims that won't require years recovering... Why, it's almost like a blessing...

19 posted on 09/06/2013 2:06:43 PM PDT by GOPJ (Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts - Churchill)
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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


20 posted on 09/06/2013 2:44:50 PM PDT by alanacrystina
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