TARPON SPRINGS - A Tarpon Springs police officer was shot and killed, and a man identified as a transient has been charged with first-degree murder, authorities said.
Veteran officer Charles "Charlie K" Kondek was fatally shot sometime after 2 a.m. near 199 Grand Blvd., a few blocks from the city's Sponge Docks. He was a father of six and former New York City policeman.
According to investigators, a second shooting occurred on Athens Street, where the shooter, identified as 23-year-old Marco Antonio Parilla Jr. (picture), fled in a white Hyundai Elantra.
Parilla crashed into a power pole and snapped it and then crashed into a pickup truck, Pinellas County Sheriff's Office spokesperson Cecila Barreda said. More
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