By Matt Wiley
Two men, including one from New Tampa, have been arrested following a shooting at a Carrollwood Home Depot.
According to the Tampa Police Department (TPD), the shooting occurred around 12:40 p.m. on November 6, following a verbal and physical altercation in the Home Depot parking lot, located at 1712 N. Dale Mabry Hwy. TPD says that it all started when Raymond Lindstrom, 35, of New Port Richey, was backing his black Ford truck out of his parking space.
At the same time, Latasha Strong, of Cross Creek, was driving her gold minivan into the parking aisle. The vehicles were too close to pass safely and words were exchanged between Latasha and Lindstrom through their driver’s side windows.
TPD reports that the argument began to get our of hand when husband Darrell Lagrant Strong, 27, also of Cross Creek, and 40-year-old John Henry Christian, III, of Tampa, arrived in a separate car. The two men confronted and began to fight Lindstrom, who remained in his truck, but pulled out a gun.
Christian and Strong tried to take Lindstrom’s gun to no avail and ran back to their vehicle, while Lindstrom attempted to drive away, but the row that he turned down was a dead-end. As he tried to turn around and exit the parking lot, Strong grabbed a .45-caliber handgun from his car and fired shots at the back of Lindstrom’s truck, which struck an unoccupied vehicle. No one was injured by the gunfire.
Strong was arrested and charged with burglary for the purpose of battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and discharging a firearm in public. Christian also was arrested in charged with burglary for the purpose of battery. Both men are being held at the Hillsborough County jail without bond. Both men had concealed weapons permits.
No additional information is available at this time.
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