Tampa Police are investigating a deadly crash involving a vehicle and multiple pedestrians at the 15-hundred block of East 7th Ave. in Tampa’s Ybor City, the Tampa Police said.

Around 12:40 a.m., the Tampa Police Department Air Service was monitoring a vehicle driving recklessly on Interstate 275, police said. The driver, identified as 22-year-old Silas Sampson, continued to drive recklessly at a high rate of speed and exited the interstate at Doyle Carlton Drive. The same vehicle had previously been observed street racing on Hillsborough Avenue near 22nd Street.

Police said as Air Service continued to monitor the vehicle TPD and the Florida Highway Patrol located the vehicle in the area of Palm Avenue and Nebraska Avenue. FHP initiated a pursuit and attempted an unsuccessful Precision

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