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Vakarvery Scott, 22, will serve life without parole for the killing of Savannah Mathis, a Hillsborough judge ruled Thursday.

Savannah Mathis was 21 years old when a man shot and killed her in December 2021 while she was driving near Julian B. Lane Riverfront Park in Tampa.

In a Tampa courtroom on Thursday afternoon, a convicted murderer will learn his fate as he faces life in prison for killing a young nursing student.

Inside a packed courtroom on the top floor of the Hillsborough County Courthouse, about 20 members of Savannah Mathis’ family waited quietly. They donned shirts bearing the 21-year-old nursing student’s smiling face and carried life-size cardboard cutouts of her. Earlier this month, a jury found Vakarvery Scott guilty of first-degree murder in Mathis’ slaying. The verdict carries a mandatory ...

Vakarvery Scott, the man convicted of shooting and killing 21-year-old Savannah Mathis, was sentenced to life in prison in a Tampa courtroom on Thursday.

A vote to impose a curfew on most youth under 16 years old citywide in Tampa is now postponed.

The mother of a slain nursing student from Tampa is celebrating what should have been Savannah Mathis' 24th birthday.

The mother of a slain nursing student from Tampa is celebrating what should have been Savannah Mathis' 24th birthday.

Gun violence impacts thousands of Americans every year, with dozens of shootings taking the lives of people across Tampa Bay.

A bill to do away with concealed carry licenses passed in the Florida House Thursday, and Tampa mother is advocating against it after losing her daughter.