Romello Barnes
Male, Black
Date of the incident: 12/12/2019
Tampa, Hillsborough, FL
8024 Hidden River Dr
8024 Hidden River Dr
Around 10 a.m., deputies responded to a 911 call from a mother reporting her son had stabbed her. Deputies arrived to find the woman with a cut hand. Deputies found her son, Romello Barnes outside an apartment with an undisclosed weapon. Barnes reportedly ran back into his apartment and deputies followed, including one with a dog. Barnes failed to comply with their commands to drop the weapon, even after the officer sicced the dog on him. Deputies Deputies Matthew Moyer, Miguel Guerra and Jamar Colon shot and killed Barnes.