"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. If that brings attention to this, that's fine.” 
 
 Anyone with information on the crimes is asked to call the police. Anthony Naiboa, 20, should not even have been in the southeast part of Seminole Heights when he was shot, apparently without motive. They got to the scene of the Thursday's shooting in minutes. “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. 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. "I go from frustration to anger on these unsolved homicides," Dugan said. "Now we have someone terrorizing the neighborhood." They brought in the dogs and called in the SWAT team. 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. 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. I was convinced that we were going to catch this person,” Dugan 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. Dugan says residents should keep their porch lights on, stick together and pay attention to their surroundings. "We're not going to be held hostage by whoever's doing this."
– 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.