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SWAT Team Gains Surrender Of Attempted-Murder Suspect

News Channel 8 photo by INDIRA LEVINE

SWAT team deputies surround 3016 Spillers Ave. in Tampa today to arrest Travis Mendez on an attempted-murder charge.

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Published: February 22, 2009

Travis Mendez

TAMPA - A Tampa man authorities say is connected to a Clair-Mel City shooting surrendered Sunday afternoon to Hillsborough County sheriff's SWAT team members after a standoff that lasted more than two hours.

Travis Mendez, 22, was charged with one count of attempted murder. Deputies say Mendez shot a Lithia teenager three times in the back with a .22-caliber pistol Sunday morning in Clair-Mel then went to a home at 3016 Spillers Ave. in Tampa.

The victim, Richard Nelson, 19, was listed in stable condition Sunday afternoon at St. Joseph's Hospital. Mendez and two others had gone to the Clair-Mel City home about 1:30 a.m. to get money owed to him, deputies say. Nelson was shot when a fight broke out.

After obtaining an arrest warrant for Mendez, a SWAT team surrounded the Spillers Avenue home, west of Orient Road and south of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, at noon, sheriff's spokesman J.D. Callaway said in a written statement.

Mendez surrendered at 2:26 p.m.

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