Andie Morrell, a 37-year-old Black woman, was found dead on September 19, 2025, in a vacant lot in the 1500 block of North 39th Street in Tampa. Officers discovered her body wrapped in bedding and bound with duct tape; the medical examiner identified her by tattoos and fingerprints and listed a gunshot wound to the chest as the cause of death. Her roommate had reported her missing after Morrell was last heard from the night of September 10, when she texted an address on Polak Drive saying she was going there for a house visit as an exotic dancer.

Surveillance from a nearby business shows a person driving a stolen vehicle into the vacant lot on the morning of September 11, dumping a body, pouring a liquid on it in an apparent attempt to set it on fire, then striking a median while leaving and removing the license plate.

Hawker was arrested on September 20 and charged with second-degree murder with a firearm. The defense entered a not guilty plea at arraignment and the case was proceeding through the court system as of October 2025. If anyone has information about Morrell’s movements around Polak Drive on September 10 or about the stolen vehicle seen at the lot on September 11, please come forward.