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Tuesday, July 29, 2008

Gospel singer dies in Tampa shooting

Gospel singer dies in Tampa shooting
By Thomas Lake, Times Staff Writer
In print: Monday, July 28, 2008

TAMPA — A young gospel singer died Sunday morning. His name was Levi Dixon Jr. He was alone in a friend's house on Walnut Street in West Tampa about 4 a.m. when someone kicked open the front door and shot him, police said. He was 17.

No arrest had been reported by late Sunday. Relatives thought the shooter might have mistaken Levi for someone else, and Tampa police Lt. Ronald McMullen acknowledged that possibility.

"By all accounts, he was a good kid," McMullen said.

Levi went to Blake High School, and he loved animals. His MySpace page was covered in pictures of Simba, the young lion from Disney's Lion King.

Relatives said he was on the verge of musical success. His uncle, Ricky Pearson, said Levi wrote his own music and sang in local clubs.

"I just keep seeing his face," Pearson said Sunday afternoon, outside Levi's mother's house in Tampa Heights, as friends and relatives came in their church clothes to grieve with her.
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1 comment:

  1. RIP Levi we'll miss you bro...you will always be remembered. I wont 4get the last time seeing Levi, we hand-shaked and said what's up to eachother in building C 2nd floor between bells at Blake High..."Young star" good kid, successful and outgoing....i cant believe he's gone.....RIP brothe!

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