TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office has identified a man who was killed after a gunman opened fire on a vehicle Friday.
A spokesperson for the sheriff's office said Tyrell Ferrell, 24, was killed in the shooting, which happened Friday afternoon near the intersection of Progress Boulevard and 82nd Street.
According to authorities, Ferrell was in the passenger seat of the vehicle when the driver, an unnamed woman, pulled over to talk to the suspect along Progress Boulevard. The driver's child was also in the backseat of the car at the time.
Investigators explained that the suspect and the people in the car knew each other.
For an unknown reason, the suspect took out a gun and began firing at the vehicle. Ferrell was shot multiple times in the upper body. He was