Group Ambushes Tampa Police Responding to Report, Officers Injured: Chief

Police officers are surrounded after responding to a reported shooting that turned out to be a false report, according to police officers, in Tampa, Fla., early June June 20, 2020. Tampa Police Department

Officials in Tampa, Florida, said two officers were injured over the weekend after a group of hundreds of people surrounded them and ambushed them.

Officers were responding to a report of shots fired near an intersection by the Ybor City neighborhood at 1 a.m., said Chief Brian Duggan.