Cephas Gilbert who operated the Jamaican restaurant Cephas' Hot Shop in Ybor for more than four decades is semi-retiring in Tampa, Florida on Friday, October 25, 2019.
Hernando County Commissioner candidate for District 3 Democrat Diane Rowden brings her pet poodle 'Kirebo' to the voting precinct at Grace Presbyterian Church in Spring Hill on Election Day on Tuesday, November 6, 2012.
Denise Hunt of Jacksonville weeps as she hears news about the jury in Michael Dunn trial are deadlocked on the second degree murder charge while deliberating at the Duval County Courthouse in Jacksonville. Dunn was charged with second degree murder in the shooting of 17-year-old Jordan Davis. Jurors were deadlocked on the second degree murder charge but agreed to convict him on two counts of attempted murder.
Donald Thompson, 55, is close to finding a new apartment after 30 tenants have been told they must vacate the Friendship Palms apartments by August 6, after the nonprofit that owns the complex lost its HUD subsidy. Local agencies are in the process of finding homes for people with mental health issues even as a deadline for them to move out expires after landlord Project Return sold Friendship Palms in Tampa, Florida.
Wilma Keck 80, of Spring Hill has $150 deducted from her bank account every month to pay off the remainder of a hospital bill where she was admitted in Calgary, Canada. Keck says that former insurance company Universal Health Care informed her they will cover the bills totaling a near $15,000 but only paid out 35 percent.
In the Palmetto Beach neighborhood of Tampa. Aaron Tracey, 34, remembers playing basketball on the courts at Desoto Park and swimming with childhood friends in McKay Bay. Palmetto Beach is one of the oldest neighborhoods located south of Ybor City.
KJ Sails weeps during USF football head coach Jeff Scott speech while they pay tribute to George Floyd and Martin Chambers. Sails, a USF player and graduate of East Bay High School, organized a unifying walk in in memory of George Floyd and Martin Chambers, a 19-year-old African-American, was shot in the back by a white police officer and died in Tampa, Florida, on Saturday, June 6, 2020.
Dean 'Al' Coleman of Hernando Beach stands next to a painting of his son Army Spc. Justin Coleman that was in the 1st Battalion, 32nd Infantry Regiment was killed in combat on July 24th, 2009 while serving in the Nuristan Province of Afghanistan. Coleman was a graduate of Nature Coast High School. "I think about Justin everyday." says Al Coleman. "Everyday is my Memorial Day."
Omar Albanil, an amateur boxer trains for his upcoming fight at the Tampa Convention Center this Friday at his gym Trigga City Boxing located in West Tampa on Wednesday, September 14, 2016.
Armwood linemen Desmond Watson, left, and Clyde Pinder Jr., pose for a portrait at Armwood High School in Tampa, Florida.
Edgar Freyre 82, a Army veteran and retired construction worker, resides in the Town 'n Country neighborhood west of downtown Tampa. Freyre is an ongoing fight with the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to receive a disability pension for a tropical disease called Schistosomiasis that he says contracted it while serving in his birthplace of Puerto Rico.
Brittany Wheeler lives with her mother, Linda, and her younger sister, Courtney, in a trailer court in The Plains, Ohio. It's a neighborhood made up of roughly 50 homes filled with working-class families, kids spilling out into the street playing basketball and parents walking their dogs.
Brittany Jackson-Marquis of Riverview holds her 5-year-old son Christopher Marquis in a room she dedicated to there late husband Army Spc. Christophe Marquis(cq). Marquis(cq) who was in the 1st Battalion 25th Infantry Division, died from his injuries sustained from a suicide bomber attack while serving in Afghanistan September 4, 2011.
Jack Coltey 69 of Masaryktown, brings his pet dog Chiquita a 1-year-old Chihuahua to the Brooksville Uptown Block Party on Thursday. "It's nice to get out of the house for a few hours to attend a free event, in todays time what is free that you can go to" says Coltey.
Vickie Blount, 51, of Brooksville was a longtime family friend of Jannie Taylor, the 81-year-old woman who was shot in the face by suspect George Mason III of Lutz last Friday, August 29, 2014. Blount says when receiving the news of the shooting she sat under the family's fruit stand on Wiscon Avenue.
Leo Rodgers, 32, of Tampa was an avid motorcycle rider before losing his leg in 2007 in an accident which he says changed his perspective on life. “I want to inspire others that nothing can’t stop you from doing anything,” said Rodgers.
On election day donning American flag themed shorts Ricky Robertson of Brooksville cast his vote at Grace World Outreach Church on Cortez Boulevard south of Brooksville, Florida.
Frances Griffin, 81, is the mother of six children, has lost four of them within the span of 30 years. Frances Griffin's most recent loss was her daughter Jeanne Moore who died at the age of 49 from a heart attack in January, just weeks after she shot and killed her husband Shawn Moore during a domestic violence altercation.
David Justin Welch 42, has been in prison for 27 years for the murder of his father, a crime that occurred when he was 15 years old. Welch says the continued physical and verbal abuse for nearly 10 years led to him taking his father’s life where he lived in Polk County, Florida.
Jerome Morrison, center, salutes in front of a shrine dedicated to the victims who were killed in Plant City, Florida.