Florida Man Crashes Big Rig into Strip Club Entrance Killing One

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Tampa police say a Florida man, 25, drove a semi-truck into the front entrance of a strip club early Tuesday morning, killing one man and injuring two others.

Witnesses telling police that the suspect was kicked out of the Emperors Gentleman Club earlier in the night but returned “to drive the truck into a group of people standing at the entrance,” according to Tampa officials.

Tampa Police Maj. Patrick Messmer says the suspect "laid in wait" for the person who kicked him out to emerge from the club.

Then he allegedly crashed the cab of the tractor-trailer into the front entrance of the topless bar around 4:30 a.m. beneath a sign that reads “Full Nude.”

All three of the injured were patrons and not the trucker's intended target, according to Messmer.


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