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By Valerie Kalfrin
The Tampa Tribune
TAMPA - A police internal investigation and the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office both determined two officers were justified in shooting at a man in a stolen car, according to a disposition letter in the case released Monday.
Gerome Wilson Jr. was wounded Oct. 2 after Tampa police Cpl. Charles Blount and Officer Joseph Duran opened fire on a Plymouth Breeze he was driving that had been reported stolen, police said.
The officers and others from their squad had surrounded the car at a traffic light at North 22nd Street and Rowlett Park Drive and ordered Wilson to exit the car. Instead, he accelerated toward Blount, police said.
Fearing for Blount’s safety, Blount and Duran fired a total of three times, striking Wilson once in the left shoulder, police said.
Wilson, now 39, of Tampa is being held at Falkenburg Road Jail on $20,000 bail, records show. He is awaiting trial on several charges, including felony aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer and felony grand theft auto. He has pleaded not guilty to all charges, court records show.
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