Woman Hangs Up After Calling 911 To Say She Shot Someone

TAMPA, FL — Tampa Police have arrested 27-year-old Joilica Sutherland and charged her with manslaughter in the shooting death of a 28-year-old man Tuesday morning.

On Tuesday afternoon, Sutherland surrendered herself to detectives and identified herself as the 911 caller who called at 10:25 a.m. and told the dispatcher she shot someone at the Palm Avenue Apartments, 10610 N. 30th St.

Officers arrived to find a man with a gunshot wound. Tampa Fire Rescue took the man to the hospital where he later died.

Although the caller was no longer at the apartment, officers found a gun on a couch.

Police confirmed that the gun recovered from her apartment was the firearm she used to shoot the man.

Sutherland was taken to the Orient Road Jail.