LEE COUNTY, Fla. — A 43-year-old man accused of killing a 47-year-old woman remained hospitalized on Thursday at the Gulf Coast Hospital in Lee County, and his condition was serious, according to deputies.
Detectives accused Ladavion King of fatally shooting Natasha “Tasha” Moses, a mother of four who worked for the city of St. Petersburg for 12 years, on Wednesday in the Childs Park area.
A St. Petersburg Police Department spokesperson released a statement saying Moses had worked as a city sanitation technician and died after the “targeted attack” on 12th Avenue South, near 40th Street.
King fled in a silver pickup truck and was speeding southbound on Interstate 75 when a Florida Highway Patrol trooper performed a Precision Immobilization Technique, or PIT maneuver, according to deputies.
King refused to get out of the truck, so there was a standoff involving FHP troopers and Lee County Sheriff’s Office deputies near Alico Road, and a law enforcement-involved shooting, according to deputies.
Lee Sheriff Carmine Marceno released a statement saying he was “incredibly proud” of the LCSO deputies in the special operations unit, crisis negotiation team, advanced technology support unit, K-9, and patrol, who responded to the “barricaded subject.”
The Florida Department of Law Enforcement responded to investigate the law enforcement-involved shooting.
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