“I AM FINE, GO BACK INSIDE”!!! BELIEVE IT OR NOT, INVESTIGATORS SAY DEWAYNE GALLISHAW JR. SHOT A GUEST TWICE IN THE HEAD AFTER INVITING HIM OVER FOR A SEXUAL ENCOUNTER… AND HAS NOW BEEN SENTENCED TO LIFE IN PRISON.
On April 19, 2023, deputies responded to an apartment on Marsh Harbor Place in Tampa, Florida.
The call came in at around 7:25 p.m. following reports of gunfire.
Upon arrival, officers discovered a 23-year-old man suffering from two gunshot wounds to the head.
The wounded man was transported to a local hospital.
He died from his injuries at the hospital.
Authorities have not publicly released the victim’s name.
Investigators later reconstructed the sequence of events leading up to the fatal gunfire.
Then-25-year-old Dewayne Gallishaw Jr. and his 26-year-old boyfriend had invited the victim to their residence.
The three had arranged to meet at the apartment for a sexual encounter.
After the 23-year-old man arrived, he and Gallishaw’s boyfriend began having sex.
Gallishaw eventually stepped outside the apartment.
His boyfriend followed him outside to check on his well-being.
Gallishaw told his boyfriend he was fine.
He then instructed the boyfriend to return inside the apartment.
A few minutes later, Gallishaw walked back into the residence.
He walked directly into a bedroom.
Gallishaw retrieved a firearm from inside the room.
Then he returned to the living room area.
Gallishaw shot the 23-year-old visitor twice in the head.
Gallishaw’s boyfriend immediately ran into a bedroom and locked the door behind him.
But Gallishaw kicked the locked bedroom door down.
A physical struggle ensued between the two men inside the apartment.
The boyfriend managed to force Gallishaw out of the residence.
He then locked the apartment’s front door.
Gallishaw fired multiple gunshots straight through the closed door before fleeing the area.
During the shooting, several rounds penetrated the walls of an adjacent unit.
A 72-year-old woman was sitting in her living room inside that neighboring apartment.
Investigators determined that Gallishaw fired at least 12 rounds into her residence.
The 72-year-old neighbor was struck in the foot by incoming gunfire.
She survived the gunshot wound.
Authorities have not publicly released a motive for the attack.
On April 20, 2023, law enforcement officers took Gallishaw into custody.
Prosecutors initially charged him with first-degree murder, attempted first-degree murder and aggravated battery with a deadly weapon.
In July 2026, Gallishaw went on trial before a jury.
The jury found him guilty of first-degree premeditated murder.
Jurors also convicted Gallishaw of attempted first-degree murder.
He was further found guilty of aggravated battery.
On August 28, 2026, the court held a formal sentencing hearing.
Gallishaw was 29 years old at the time of sentencing.
The court sentenced Gallishaw to life in prison for the murder conviction.
The judge handed down a second life sentence for the attempted murder charge.
And Gallishaw received an additional 30-year prison sentence for aggravated battery.
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