A man celebrating his birthday at a Tampa Airbnb rental says he was jumped, beaten and robbed, then found slumped in his vehicle with significant facial injuries after deputies were alerted by his own iPhone. Four people are now facing charges in connection with the attack, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.
According to a statement from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office
, deputies were called to the scene after an iPhone crash alert led them to a vehicle on East 21st Avenue just before 1 a.m. on October 15. The driver they found there told deputies he had been attacked and robbed shortly before they arrived, and he was discovered with significant facial injuries, per the same post. The robbery itself is reported to have happened at an Airbnb rental on the 7800 block of New York Drive in Tampa, where the man had reportedly been marking his birthday before the alleged assault…