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    A Tampa Police officer was killed in 1949. His story binds two friends.

    By Paul Guzzo,

    28 days ago
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    Best friends Kevin Roger and Morris Lopez III are linked by the 75-year-old unsolved murder of a Tampa police officer. Roger's father was there when Lopez' grandfather was assassinated while on duty in Ybor City. [ Courtesy of Morris Lopez III ]

    TAMPA — As a young newsboy in Ybor City in 1949, Jesse Roger looked forward to regular chats with a Tampa Police officer named Morris Lopez. Girls, school, sports — they covered it all.

    During one of those chats, on July 9, 1949, Lopez was shot and killed, a case that was never solved.

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