Video above - ‘Ty was an amazing dad’: St. Pete father shot, killed with toddler in car

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (WFLA) -- A man was arrested Tuesday and charged with murder after a St. Petersburg father was fatally shot with his one-year-old daughter in the car.

An arrest report from the St. Petersburg Police Department said that on Sept. 7, Tyrone Howard, 21, arranged to meet Jamal Black, 20, at his home on Emerson Avenue to sell him marijuana.

Howard sent a text at 2:01 p.m. stating he was a minute away from arriving at Black's home. Three minutes later, Howard's car crashed because he had been shot. He died at the hospital from his injuries.

His 18-month-old daughter, who was in the car at the time of the shooting and crash, was also taken to the hospital, but she was not hurt.

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