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Suspicious package destroyed at bank
By TIMES WIRES
Published November 6, 2006
TAMPA - A police bomb squad blew up a suspicious package left inside a downtown bank lobby Sunday afternoon, later to discover it was a weekly delivery of brochures. A security guard at the Bank of America off Kennedy Boulevard and Ashley Drive called Tampa police about 10:15 a.m. to say someone had dropped off a suspicious package. The bomb squad reviewed security tape from the Bank of America's cameras and other five surrounding banks, where a similar package had been delivered, police spokeswoman Andrea Davis said. The bomb squad used a robot to remove the package from the Bank of America lobby and blew it up about 1 p.m. Davis said that a security guard at one of the other banks opened another package and recognized it as a weekly delivery of Greater Tampa Education guides. Wrong man got in the way of gunman's aim Hillsborough Sheriff's Office investigators say an Odessa man who was shot in the chest and abdomen Saturday was a bystander and the gunman intended to shoot someone else. Mark Barnett, 20, remained at St. Joseph's Hospital on Sunday in critical condition, Sheriff's Office spokesman J.D. Callaway said. Patrick M. Wing, 26, fired a gun inside his mother's Wyndham Lakes Drive home about 1:15 a.m., deputies said. Wing went there looking for a man who he suspected was in some kind of relationship with his mother. Deputies said that Wing shot Barnett, but he later told investigators he had intended to shoot someone else. Barnett did not have a relationship with Wing's mother, Callaway said. Wing was arrested on attempted murder charges. Apartment fire damages seven units Hillsborough County firefighters responded to an alarm at the Lexington at Westchase Apartments on Sunday morning, where a small fire in an unoccupied unit caused $75,000 in damage. Fire officials said that a sprinkler kept the fire from spreading and the first crew that arrived extinguished it. Water damage was more extensive, however, causing some flooding to six other units.
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