7-Eleven Back Open Following Gruesome Crime

Less than 24 hours after it was the scene of a bloody stabbing death, the 7-Eleven at  at 11015 Bloomingdale Ave. is open for business. 

An employee at the store said that they reopened last night, July 10.

Kenneth Lee Redding, a clerk at the store, lost his life after being transported to Tampa General Hospital. A customer found Redding lying in a pool of blood, in an aisle, shortly after 1:30 a.m. on July10, according to a report from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office.

Redding reportedly had worked at the 7-11, at 11015 Bloomingdale Ave., for a year- and a-half.

Lawrence Robert Bondgiovanni is behind bars in Charlotte County, booked on "one count of first-degree premeditated murder with a weapon" in the brutal stabbing slaying of 7-11 clerk Kenneth Lee Redding, according to a Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office report.


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