TAMPA, FL (WFLA) – Since the murder of a Tampa grandmother over the weekend, detectives have received several tips, but not necessarily the ones they need. Andrea Davis is a spokeswoman for the department.
“We do have people talking in this particular case, unfortunately they’re not the people who necessarily have all the information.” Davis said. “There are people out there who have specific details that we need and we need them to come to us.”
Police responded to the home at 1805 Delaware Ave. in Tampa after Sharon Watkins’ husband found his wife’s lifeless body in a bedroom of their apartment. Several bullet holes are still visible in the bedroom window. Mahogany Lewis has small children, and saw Watkins shortly before she was shot and killed.
“Every time I walk past, and I had just walked past her that Friday evening. Me and my girls. My oldest daughter she would always stop and say hello,” Lewis said. “She’d go up there and play with the toys, play with the kids, so I had just seen her.”
Lewis is hopeful police find the gunman, before someone else gets hurt.
“It’s sad, you can’t even sit in your house or lay in your bed,” Lewis said. “There’s always something going on. A bullet has nobody’s name on it.”
Davis says detectives suspect teens may be involved.
“We have these neighborhood feuds going on. These kids shooting at each other. Enough is enough,” Lewis said. “We have an innocent person who is now shot and killed in her own home possibly because of these neighborhood feuds and it’s time for the community to step up. “
