A well-known sanitation technician and mother of four in Saint Petersburg was killed in an apparently targeted attack on July 22, 2026. Natasha Tasha Moses, 47, was seated in the cab of her front-end loader in the Childs Park neighborhood when a man she knew allegedly climbed into the vehicle and shot her multiple times at close range. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

The suspect, 43-year-old Ladavion King, fled and was later located driving south on Interstate 75. Florida Highway Patrol officers used a PIT maneuver to stop his truck in Lee County; King barricaded himself in the vehicle and an exchange of gunfire left him seriously injured. He was taken into custody and hospitalized.

King faces first-degree murder and felon-in-possession counts in Pinellas County related to Moses’s death, and in Lee County faces attempted second-degree murder, fleeing and eluding, and possession of a firearm by a felon arising from the interstate standoff. Moses is remembered by family and neighbors for her long service to the city and dedication to her children.

Does anyone in Childs Park or the surrounding area have information about Moses, her work routes, or the events leading up to July 22?