2 Arrested in Land O’ Lakes Shooting Death
Pasco County deputies say last night’s shooting was premeditated.
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Two men have been charged in connection with last night’s shooting at the Garland Motor Court in Land O’ Lakes.
The shooting took place just before 11 p.m. last night, Aug. 27, at 4511 Land O’ Lakes Blvd. According to a Pasco County Sheriff’s Office press release, detectives in the case believe the shooting of Kenneth Myron Staley, 25, was premeditated.
Deputies say Timothy Michael Reed, 31, shot Staley four times with a .38 caliber revolver in the motel’s front yard. Following his arrest, Reed admitted to shooting Staley and told Detective Lisa Schoneman that he shot the victim “as many times as the gun would fire,” the release said.
Schoneman’s investigation says there is a link between Reed and Lonnie Gibbs Rogers, 41, of 2009 E. Caracus St. in Tampa. The Pasco detective said that Rogers arranged the shooting, which was related to a “dispute involving drugs and the victim's involvement with a female,” the release said.
Rogers is said to have offered Staley a bus ticket to Texas if he would leave town, but Stanley refused the offer. Rogers also asked a witness to remove any evidence from the crime scene, the release said.
Rogers and Reed are both charged with first degree murder and were being held at the Land O’ Lakes Jail without bond.
Staley was airlifted to St. Joseph’s Hospital last night, but later died from his wounds.
Staley was serving three years of felony parole for a grand theft charge out of Hillsborough County earlier this year, according to state records.
melinda croft
5:09 pm on Sunday, August 28, 2011
why do people have to kill someone just because they are mad at them and dont like them and most of all its all over drugs and a woman? you just wasted on mans life and also the two of you who did this will spend all you lives in prison for what you did and what have you accomplished by spending your life in prison. That is no place to be and you will have the rest of your life to think about this regret doing this and having no freedom most of all.
Kt
5:22 pm on Sunday, August 28, 2011
The pill mill has taken another life. Very sad, cops need to clean that motel and trailer hood out.
Rene Van Hout
6:51 am on Monday, August 29, 2011
I hope cops are keeping a close eye on the pill mill across the street from Royal Lanes. It's been there too long!
denyse
12:45 am on Tuesday, August 30, 2011
I hope their family feels the pain we are feeling for the loss. Of our family member the only difference is they can still see them we will never see him again. Very angry Texas
Sherri Lonon
8:07 am on Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Denyse, my condolences to you and your family.
anastasia
12:24 pm on Friday, September 7, 2012
kenneth myron was my brother in law that got murdered it has been a year since he has been gone and it is still very hard for us,i hope they do not get to spend the rest of there lives in prison i hope they get the death penlty, they do not deserve to live for what they have done to me and the family and to my brother,he was the most loving,respectful,caring person you would have ever met,he would give anyone the shirt off his back he did not deserve to die.i hope they get the death penlty so there family can feel the same way we do. although theres will be a sechduled death my brothers wasnt he got brudly murdered his life got tooken away from him,im just very thankful for being as strong as he was to stay alive long enough to tell the cops there names they should not be aloud to walk this earth no more longer. R.I.PARADISE MY BROTHER KENNETH MYRON STALEY 3RD!! you will never ever be forgotten