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Tampa man sought in death of baby found on I-275 shoulder
TAMPA - A 4-month-old baby that police believe was thrown from a car was found dead on the shoulder of Interstate 275 this morning.
Police are searching for Richard Anthony McTear Jr., 21, the man suspected of throwing the infant onto the breakdown lane of southbound I-275 just past the Fowler Avenue exit, where a passing motorist found the baby.
Paramedics were unable to revive the baby, who was pronounced dead at 4:30 a.m.
"Just out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw some trash on the side of the road. But the more I thought about it, I saw eyes," said Jason Bird, who found the infant while driving to work.
"It flipped me out, and I started shaking and said, 'It's a doll, a baby doll,' " Bird said.
It was no doll.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said the baby was Emanuel Wesley Murray, the son of 17-year-old Jasmine Bedwell of Tampa, who called police just after 3 a.m. to report a domestic dispute.
According to the sheriff's office, Bedwell told officers that McTear, her ex-boyfriend, had come to her apartment on North 15th Street, where he argued with her and battered her and her infant son. McTear is not the child's father, deputies said.
At one point during the argument, McTear threw the child to the concrete, according to the sheriff's office. McTear then took the baby and fled, investigators said. Details of the argument were not clear, deputies said.
Investigators have found the car McTear was driving at his home, 1601 E. River Cove St.
The two right lanes of southbound I-275 are closed at Fowler, and traffic is stalled between Bearss and Fowler avenues.
I couldn't believe this when I heard it on the news this morning. My co-workers and I have decided that when he is caught to throw him off an overpass into traffic...preferably a convoy of semi's!!
TAMPA - A 4-month-old baby that police believe was thrown from a car was found dead on the shoulder of Interstate 275 this morning.
Police are searching for Richard Anthony McTear Jr., 21, the man suspected of throwing the infant onto the breakdown lane of southbound I-275 just past the Fowler Avenue exit, where a passing motorist found the baby.
Paramedics were unable to revive the baby, who was pronounced dead at 4:30 a.m.
"Just out of the corner of my eye, I thought I saw some trash on the side of the road. But the more I thought about it, I saw eyes," said Jason Bird, who found the infant while driving to work.
"It flipped me out, and I started shaking and said, 'It's a doll, a baby doll,' " Bird said.
It was no doll.
The Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office said the baby was Emanuel Wesley Murray, the son of 17-year-old Jasmine Bedwell of Tampa, who called police just after 3 a.m. to report a domestic dispute.
According to the sheriff's office, Bedwell told officers that McTear, her ex-boyfriend, had come to her apartment on North 15th Street, where he argued with her and battered her and her infant son. McTear is not the child's father, deputies said.
At one point during the argument, McTear threw the child to the concrete, according to the sheriff's office. McTear then took the baby and fled, investigators said. Details of the argument were not clear, deputies said.
Investigators have found the car McTear was driving at his home, 1601 E. River Cove St.
The two right lanes of southbound I-275 are closed at Fowler, and traffic is stalled between Bearss and Fowler avenues.
I couldn't believe this when I heard it on the news this morning. My co-workers and I have decided that when he is caught to throw him off an overpass into traffic...preferably a convoy of semi's!!
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