Violent Rampage: Florida Man Crashes Semi-Truck into Strip Club

In a shock­ing act of vio­lence, a 25-year-old Flori­da man drove a semi-truck through a strip club in Tam­pa, killing one patron and injur­ing two others.

The inci­dent unfold­ed in the ear­ly hours of Tues­day morn­ing at the Emper­ors Gen­tle­man Club.

Deadly Crash at the Strip Club

Accord­ing to police, the sus­pect had been kicked out of the club ear­li­er in the night but returned to “dri­ve the truck into a group of peo­ple stand­ing at the entrance.” 

The cab of the trac­tor-trail­er crashed into the front area of the top­less bar, just beneath a sign that read “Full Nude.”

Wit­ness­es report­ed that the man had “lied in wait” for at least 30 min­utes before the per­son he was argu­ing with emerged from the club, at which point he plowed into a group of about half a dozen people. 

One man was killed, while anoth­er two were injured but expect­ed to survive.

Deadly Consequences of Rage

Tam­pa Police Major Patrick Mess­mer stat­ed that the three vic­tims were not the intend­ed tar­gets of the mani­ac’s attack. 

They were sim­ply inno­cent patrons caught in the path of the reck­less dri­ver’s dead­ly rampage.

The sus­pect, whose iden­ti­ty has not been released, was hos­pi­tal­ized in crit­i­cal but sta­ble condition. 

When released, he will face a slew of charges, includ­ing first-degree mur­der, attempt­ed first-degree mur­der, DUI manslaugh­ter, vehic­u­lar homi­cide, and DUI with seri­ous injury.