Not the gun used in the Plant City, Florida shooting, but you get the point. Credit: St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

Not the gun used in the Plant City, Florida shooting, but you get the point. Credit: St. Louis Circuit Attorney's Office [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons

In a news release, Hillsborough County Sheriff’s spokesman Danny Alvarez said that, at approximately 9:30 p.m. on Christmas night, deputies went to a Forbes Road home in Plant City after someone called 911.

Upon arrival, deputies say they found that 82-year-old Guy Vickery had shot his 50-year-old son Benjamin Vickery in the upper body during an argument. Benjamin was taken to South Florida Baptist Hospital, where he died

The Associated Press wrote that authorities haven’t said whether Guy Vickery will be charged, and details are still emerging.


This article appears in Dec 20-27, 2018.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...