Twelve years after his son was killed in Tampa, Andrew Joseph Jr. apparently couldn’t go on.
“I would just say that his cause of death was a heavy heart,” Deanna Joseph told Creative Loafing Tampa about her husband, who died last month after coming home dizzy and passing out.
He’d been helping the family of Jaylen Lewis—a 25-year-old killed in 2022 by Mississippi cops—get justice. It was work the New Orleans native leaned into after the death of his and Deanna’s own son, Andrew “Pee Wee” Joseph III, who was just 14 years old when he was taken into custody and ejected from the Florida State Fair by Hillsborough County Sheriffs on Feb. 7, 2014. A friend who was with their son said that a deputy had advised them to cross Interstate-4…