An 18-year-old Apollo Beach man has been arrested on a murder charge in connection with a fatal shooting at the Riverview Wawa earlier this month, deputies said.
Tyler Harnage was arrested Tuesday on a charge of third-degree murder in the death of a man found with a gunshot wound in the parking lot of the Wawa at 9615 U.S. Highway 301 on May 10, according to Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
Harnage turned himself into the Orient Road Jail with his attorney after investigators obtained an arrest warrant earlier in the day, the sheriff’s office said.
Tyler Harnage, 18, is pictured in a Hillsborough County booking photo taken May 10. [ The Hillsborough County Sheriff’s office ]
Harnage was released Tuesday night on $5,000 bond, jail records show.
Deputies responded to a call of shots fired at the Wawa, located at the corner of US Highway 301 and Gibsonton Drive, around 8:30 p.m., according to information previously released by the sheriff’s office. Deputies and Hillsborough County Fire Rescue crews arrived and found a man with a gunshot wound.
The man was taken to a local hospital where he died, officers said.
Deputies have not said what led them to suspect Harnage. An arrest affidavit was not available Wednesday.
The sheriff’s office has not identified the man killed in the shooting, citing Marsy’s Law, but his family has identified him as 21-year-old Jacob Larson.
The schedule for Jacob Matthew Larson’s memorial service is shown in a public post on the Facebook page of Larson’s father, Mike. Jacob Larson, 21, was the man shot and killed at the Wawa at 9615 U.S. Highway 301 in Riverview on May 10, according to his family. [ Facebook ]
According to Florida law, third-degree murder is “the unlawful killing of a human being, when committed without any intent to cause death, by a person engaged in the commission of, or in the attempt to commit, any crime” other than nearly two dozen enumerated exceptions.”
Third-degree murder is punishable by up to 15 years in prison.
