Crime & Safety

Seminole Heights Shootings: Victim's Father Tweets To President Trump 'Find My Daughter's Killer'

Kenny Hoffa sent the tweet on Monday, about 10 days after his daughter was shot and killed in Seminole Heights.

@realDonaldTrump can you help us find my daughters killer her name is Monica Hoffa send in the FBI she was killed in Tampa by a serial killr

TAMPA, FL - Kenny Hoffa has tweeted to President Donald Trump asking for help. He has sent a tweet to the FBI. He just wants someone to find his daughter’s killer.

Hoffa sent the tweets on Monday, about 10 days after his daughter was shot and killed in Seminole Heights while walking to a friend’s house. Her body was found in a vacant lot, less than a mile from areas where two other shooting victims died.

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Hoffa’s daughter, 32-year-old Monica Hoffa, was the second victim of a killer who, police say, is responsible for all three deaths.

The Seminole Heights neighborhood has been on edge since the three deaths occurred in the span of 11 days. Police say they have no motive and the victims did not know each other, but authorities consider the shootings to be related.

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Police have declined to use the term serial killer, saying they are not sure if the shootings were committed by one person.

"There's some psycho out there putting other people through this pain and suffering I'm going through," Hoffa told NBC News on Monday. "I don't know why he feels the need to go out and senselessly murder people in the street, shoot them down like they're dogs."

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Hoffa said he wants to “look in this man’s eyes and ask him how he could do something so terrible to my daughter.”

Hoffa, who lives in North Charleston, S.C., said he needs the Seminole Heights community “to stand up and I need them to point out who that man is."

“I know they are afraid. I know people are probably worried that they are going to be next. But people need to step out and they need to identify this guy so we can get him off the street. There’s two other families that are suffering just like our family is suffering and those two families need vengeance just like we do,” Hoffa told ABC Action News.

He said his daughter was a good person and made a difference in the world. Monica’s mom is deaf and his daughter would interpret for her. “She was a Godsend for her mother,” he said. “She had a great sense of humor...”

Monica Hoffa’s body was cremated last weekend.

Anthony Naiboa, the latest victim, was a 20-year-old Middleton High School graduate who was shot and killed on a sidewalk at N 15th and E. Conover streets on Thursday. Prior to Naiboa's death, 22-year-old Benjamin Edward Mitchell and Hoffa were found shot to death. Mitchell died on Oct. 9 and Hoffa’s body was found four days later.

The one bit of evidence police have released is a surveillance video of a thin person wearing a hood walking along a neighborhood street at the time of the first shooting on Oct. 9. The person, who appears to be a man, has not been called a suspect, but police have said they want to speak with him. The video can be viewed here.

Police say they brought in two people who they believed might be the person in the video. They were questioned and later released.

In an interview with CNN on Tuesday, Mayor Bob Buckhorn said police are no closer to finding a suspect. He said police "don't have a lot to work with right now."

"This is an unusual case," the mayor said. "There is no rhyme or reason other than folks being in the wrong place at the wrong time, in the wrong neighborhood.”

During a community meeting Monday night, Buckhorn vowed to a packed auditorium of Seminole Heights residents that city police would not leave their area until the gunman responsible for the three deaths is captured.

“We will hunt this son of a b---- down until we find him,” Buckhorn said to thunderous applause.

Read the ABC Action News story here.

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