TAMPA, Fla. (WFLA) — A man has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder following a 2023 incident at a Tampa gas station where he doused another man with gasoline and lit him on fire.
The 60-year-old victim’s family was in court Tuesday as Earl Hargrove Jr. accepted responsibility for the crime, the Hillsborough County State Attorney’s Office said.
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The victim suffered severe burns and died in the hospital weeks after the violent assault.
Investigators said it started with an argument between Hargrove and the victim on May 28, 2023, at the Mobil gas station on North 22nd Street…