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And number four, they just murdered benjamin mitchell. >> reporter: police have been going door to door in the sminal heights neighborhood, a neighborhood of about 1900 homes. among the questions they are asking members of that community as they speak to them is, do you have a home surveillance camera. if you do, they want you to register it with authorities so that information like this could come forward, brooke. but again, let's stress not jesus speck but a person very important for this police department to speak with. >> got it. i imagine people in tampa want to get this guy caught. thank...

They want to talk to this man. tonight, the simplest tasks, from going to the grocery store to walking the dog have now become a real concern. abc's victor oquendo from tampa. >> reporter: tonight, a tearful plea from the father of monica hoffa, one of the victims gunned down in tampa. >> i need that community to stand up and i need them to point out, you know, who that man is. >> reporter: he's the person of interest tampa police are desperate to find, spotted near the site of the first of three shootings. three victims killed in less than two weeks. police say the crimes are connected. paren...

Lead, showing a person of interest. police not releasing much information about evidence, but insisting the killings are connected. >> i assure you that they are related, they're linked. >> reporter: three people gunned down in ten days, less than half a mile apart. two of the three victims, benjamin mitchell and anthony naiboa, killed near bus stops. naiboa just happened to take the wrong bus home when he was murdered last thursday. the transit authority has since altered its routes. the other victim, monica hoffa, was walking to a friend's home. her body discovered in an empty lot, hidden in...

And they don't want anyone's vision boxed in, as to who this killer could be. they want people's minds open, as they search for a lead, a motive, a suspect. they do have this video, police have been circulating. it was video captured the night of the first murder, october 9th, when benjamin mitchell was gunned down at a bus stop outside his home. people watching this video say the man you see there has a distinct walk and yet police haven't had anybody come forward with any information. so, now, chris, the police chief saying, everyone is a suspect. he told those folks last night, if you were ...

Alert, fear is growing able football -- about possible serial killer in florida community. rob: three people killed in the same tampa bay neighborhood. shala with more this morning. >> special community meeting is scheduled for tonight, among those in attendance the tampa mayor as well as the tampa police chief both are expected to address that spike in violence here in the city's seminole heights neighborhood here comes after residents and relatives of victims joint forces of victims for a series of community walks, three people have been gunned down one half mile stretch and police are inves...