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Reward offered for lead to USF campus killer
By Times Staff Writer
Published February 24, 2006
TAMPA - Two weeks after the on-campus murder of former graduate student Ronald Stem, University of South Florida police are offering up to $10,000 for information leading to his killer.
"This is still an unsolved homicide, and we need the community's help," said Sgt. Mike Klingebiel, a USF police spokesman.
Stem, a 57-year-old Army veteran who pursued a graduate degree in secondary education from USF until 2004, was visiting a friend in the Magnolia Apartments residence hall Feb. 9. As Stem left the apartments, where he had lived as a USF student, he was shot dead in the parking lot.
A surveillance camera recorded three men running across the parking lot afterward. Witnesses saw three men speed off in a vehicle, the make uncertain.
In the two weeks since, USF detectives and Tampa police have worked to track down leads.
On Wednesday, the Tampa police dive team searched a pond near where Stem was shot. Klingebiel said detectives are keeping the result of that search confidential for now.
University police also are circulating fliers with the surveillance camera images in campus residence halls, in hopes of sparking leads.
The reward money will come from the USF Police Department and the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.
Anyone with information is asked to call USF police at 974-2628 or CrimeStoppers at 1-800-873-8477.
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