"Someone is terrorizing'' Seminole Heights after third slaying in 11 days 
 
 TAMPA — When asked Friday if Tampa police believe a serial killer is stalking the residents of Seminole Heights, interim Tampa Police Chief Brian Dugan paused for a moment. 
 
 "We can call it what we want," said a clearly frustrated Dugan, who called a news conference to talk about the discovery Thursday of yet another body, the third person to be shot and killed in the neighborhood in 11 days. "If that brings attention to it, that's fine." 
 
 The latest killing took place about 8 p.m. Thursday, Dugan said. It was both frustrating and hauntingly tragic. 
 
 Anthony Naiboa, 20, should not even have been in the southeast part of Seminole Heights when he was shot, apparently without motive. After he left work Thursday night, he got on the wrong bus. His body was found near the intersection of 15th Street N. and E. Frierson Avenue, just 200 yards from where he left the bus and began walking. 
 
 Police officers who were flooding the area because of the two previous murders heard the gun shots, Dugan said, but arrived too late. The shooter was gone. 
 
 Authorities are releasing little information about their investigation, which is being assisted by the FBI. The three victims, Naiboa, Benjamin Edward Mitchell, 22, and Monica Caridad Hoffa, 32, are all connected by proximity and time-frame, said Dugan, who declined to say whether there is any connection between the type of weapon or ammunition used in the killings. 
 
 As of now, he said, there is no suspect or motive. 
 
 In addition to the FBI's help, Dugan said the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office and St. Petersburg Police have offered support. Crime Stoppers and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are teaming up on a $25,000 reward for information that leads to a suspect's arrest. 
 
 Meanwhile, the hunt continues. 
 
 "I go from frustration to anger,'' Dugan said. "Now we have someone terrorizing the neighborhood. It's just difficult to see this happen." 
 
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 Naiboa's father began to worry Thursday night when his son didn't come home. He finally called police. 
 
 "We had to regretfully inform him that his son had been murdered," the chief said. 
 
 The father of Benjamin Mitchell, whose body was found Oct. 9, was still grappling Friday with his loss along with the news that someone else's son had been killed. He met Friday with Naiboa's parents and they grieved together. 
 
 "To hear there was a third victim, and for him to meet Anthony Naibo's parents this morning, you can just imagine what's that's like," Dugan said. 
 
 Authorities have said repeatedly that the victims did nothing wrong and there is no connection between them. 
 
 But there are similarities. 
 
 All three victims were bus riders and all three were shot at or near bus stops. Mitchell and Naiboa both attended Middleton High School. 
 
 Mitchell was waiting for a bus at the stop on North 15th and E. Frierson when he was shot. Two days later, Hoffa was killed, but it would be another two days until her body was found on the 1000 block of E. New Orleans Avenue — about six blocks west of the Ellicott Street bus stop on the No. 9 line. A city worker found her body in a vacant lot. 
 
 Naiboa was found at North 15th and Conover streets, a few hundred yards south from the No. 9 bus stop where he had gotten off and where Mitchell was killed 11 days earlier. 
 
 Hoffa did not drive and relied heavily on public transportation, said Caz Taylor, 34, a close friend of Hoffa. 
 
 "Every day she was walking to the bus stop," Taylor said. "That was not unusual. Her main mode of transportation was her feet." 
 
 Taylor met Hoffa when the two were teens and saw each other nearly every day until Taylor moved to Ohio. 
 
 "She was so witty and smart," Taylor said. "She made friends everywhere she went." 
 
 A Celebration of Life service for Hoffa is scheduled for Saturday at the Gonzalez Funeral Home, 7209 N. Dale Mabry Highway in Tampa. 
 
 Mitchell was attending classes at Hillsborough Community College, where he majored in psychology. 
 
 His cousin, Sheree Allen, said the family moved to Tampa from Las Vegas 10 years ago, hoping for a better life. 
 
 "He could be himself here," she said. "He wasn't bullied and kids wouldn't pressure him into things. He kept out of trouble." 
 
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 Southeast Seminole Heights is roughly bordered by Nebraska Avenue to the west, 15th Street to the east, Hillsborough Avenue to the north and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard to the south. 
 
 In the wake of the shootings, police said they have "blanketed the area" with officers and sent alerts to residents via Alert Tampa. 
 
 Mariah Jackson, 18, described heavily armed police entering her Seminole Heights home shortly after 12:30 a.m. Friday. 
 
 "They said they were looking for a body," Jackson said. 
 
 Detectives also are talking with residents, collecting surveillance video and showing the video of a man recorded walking in the area when the first murder occurred. 
 
 Dugan cautions residents not to assume the person in the video is white or black, male or female. Investigators want to know what the person saw and eliminate him or her as a suspect. 
 
 At this point, authorities do not believe the killings are connected to the shooting death of Dontae Lampkins, 25, whose body was found Jan. 26 in an alleyway between E Mohawk and Comanche avenues in the Hampton Terrace neighborhood of Seminole Heights. 
 
 Dugan says residents should keep their porch lights on, stick together and pay attention to their surroundings. That means looking up from smart phones as they're making their way around the neighborhood. 
 
 Residents shouldn't hide in their homes, though, the chief said. 
 
 "Do cookouts, walk your dog," he said. "We're not going to be held hostage by whoever's doing this." 
 
 The chief also had a message for the shooter. 
 
 "Enough is enough," he said. "I don't know what your motive is. I don't know what your problem is. There's been enough carnage. You have severely affected some families." 
 
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 Police found Anthony Naiboa, 20, dead on North 15th Street near East Conover Street around 8 p.m. Thursday, according to Interim Chief Brian Dugan. 
 
 "Anthony last night was at work. He took the wrong bus to this neighborhood," Dugan said. "He should not have been in this neighborhood." 
 
 Police are investigating three suspicious deaths - on Oct. 9, Oct. 13 and Oct. 19 - in the Seminole Heights neighborhood. Dugan said police believe the three deaths are related. 
 
 “When you look at the timeframe, the proximity, that there is no apparent motive, that they are alone, the victims are a lot of the time, it's clear to me that they're all linked,” Dugan said. 
 
 Three people have been killed in less than 2 weeks in Seminole Heights. 
 
 "I go from frustration to anger on these unsolved homicides," Dugan said. "Now we have someone terrorizing the neighborhood." 
 
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 On Friday morning, Dugan urged Seminole Heights residents to review video the police department released on Oct. 13. The video shows a man who could help solve the Oct. 9 homicide of Brian Mitchell. 
 
 "Do not assume this is a white person. Do not assume this is a black person," Dugan said. "Do not assume it's a {man}." 
 
 Dugan said Tampa police do not have any leads or motives on the homicides as of Friday morning. He also recommended residents to turn on their porch lights and to stay in groups outside. 
 
 "We're not going to be held hostage," Dugan said. 
 
 Dugan warned people not to walk alone in the Seminole Heights neighborhood after Mitchell's homicide and the Oct. 11 homicide of Monica Hoffa. Police found Hoffa dead on Oct. 13. 
 
 Naiboa's murder happened between 200-300 yards of Mitchell's house, according to Dugan. 
 
 As a result of the first two murders, Tampa police had already saturated the neighborhood. They got to the scene of the Thursday's shooting in minutes. They brought in the dogs and called in the SWAT team. However, the suspect has already gotten away. 
 
 “We instantaneously had a perimeter set up last night. I was convinced that we were going to catch this person,” Dugan said. 
 
 Dugan said law enforcement needed the public's help in finding who is responsible for the crimes. 
 
 "There's no doubt in my mind that this person is out there, and it's frustrating and it makes me angry that they're able to vanish so quickly," Dugan said. 
 
 The shootings have frightened people living and working in the area. 
 
 Just a few blocks away, at a stretch of trendy stores and restaurants along Nebraska Avenue, there is concern customers could stay away. 
 
 “People will be scared to come in,” said Marez George, who works at a local cafe. “Especially, I'm not talking about just this restaurant, the area itself. Like me, I'm scared to come around this area now,” she said. 
 
 Investigators are now checking area houses and businesses looking for security cameras that might have captured images around the time of the shootings. 
 
 Dugan described the shooter as an animal and a terrorist, but stopped short of using the words ‘serial killer’. 
 
 “We are still sifting through evidence,” he said. “We can call it what we want. If that brings attention to this, that's fine.” 
 
 Anyone with information on the crimes is asked to call the police. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and Crime Stoppers are also offering an $25,000 reward for tipsters at 1(800)873-8477. 
 
 Last year, there was one murder in Seminole Heights and 14 shootings. From January through September of this year, there were no murders and five shootings. 
 
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– When asked Friday if Tampa has a serial killer on the loose, police chief Brian Dugan didn't deny the possibility. "We can call it what we want," the Tampa Bay Times quotes Dugan as saying. "If that brings attention to it, that's fine." Three people have been killed in the Florida city's Seminole Heights neighborhood over the past 11 days. The victims aren't connected to each other and none were doing anything wrong when they were killed, but Dugan says there's "no doubt" the murders are related. Police say all three victims were shot while they were alone at night. And all three were regular bus riders shot at or near bus stops. The three murders happened within a mile of each other. Benjamin Mitchell, a 22-year-old believed to be the first victim, was shot and killed Oct. 9 while waiting for a bus. The body of the second victim, 32-year-old Monica Hoffa, was found in a vacant lot Oct. 11. And on Thursday, 20-year-old Anthony Naiboa, who was autistic, was killed after accidentally taking the wrong bus home from work and ending up in Seminole Heights. Dugan says police, who had "blanketed the area" after the first two killings, heard the shots that killed Naiboa, but the shooter still managed to escape. He says from now on anyone walking alone in Seminole Heights will be considered a potential victim or suspect, WTSP reports. Police have no motive or suspect, though they are attempting to identity a person seen in grainy surveillance footage. A $25,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest or conviction.