Cop In Unmarked SUV Decapitates Elderly Man In Hit and Run, Police Go Mum

TAMPA — A Tampa man says detectives have told him that a Tampa police officer was behind the wheel of an unmarked car last week that struck his father, who was found dead in what authorities have called a hit-and-run accident.

But Tampa police have not acknowledged publicly that one of their officers may have been involved in a fatal pedestrian collision more than a week after it occurred.

Bradley McIntire says Tampa police told him Tuesday that DNA taken from blood on the bottom of a police car matched that of his father, William Dale McIntire, 60.

The elder McIntire was decapitated when the car ran over him, his son said. It happened about 11:35 p.m. June 28 on N 40th Street at the intersection of E Flora Street in Temple Crest.

"I know enough to say it was an officer that was involved," Bradley McIntire said. "I guess they want to say they don't know if he killed him or if he got struck earlier."