3 People dead at James Blake's home in Florida...

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3 dead in fire at ex-tennis player James Blake's Florida home

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1 hr ago By Associated Press
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TAMPA, Fla. — Officials say firefighters have found three bodies in a burning mansion owned by a former tennis star near Tampa.
Hillsborough County Sheriff's Spokeswoman Cristal Bermudez Nunez says the home is owned by James Blake.
She says neighbors have told detectives that Blake hasn't lived in the house for a while and was renting it out. She also says detectives haven't talked with Blake yet.
Blake's agent, Carlos Fleming, says the former tennis player is not in Florida.
Authorities say the fire was reported to them at 6 a.m. Firefighters were still on the scene midmorning Wednesday.
Nunez says detectives don't yet know how the people died inside the home, in a gated community north of downtown Tampa.

 

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This is something else. Will be interesting to find out exactly what happened. Very tragic.

 

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The death count is now up to 4 people! This is a gated community....don't know what happened here.

 

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...more news about the tragedy:

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) -- A man, his wife and their two teenage children were shot before the million-dollar home they were renting burned down in what investigators called arson, a fire perhaps exacerbated by fireworks and gasoline, authorities said Thursday.
Autopsies were still being completed to determine how they died, but investigators have said they are looking into the possibility of a murder-suicide. Authorities recovered a gun at the home registered to Darrin Campbell and he bought an "exceedingly large amount" of fireworks and gas cans days before the fire, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Col. Donna Lusczynski said.
Raw:'Unusual' fire at Florida Mansion Kills Four

1 day ago Duration: 0:51 Views: 10k Authorities still have not positively identified the bodies, but the family has not been accounted for and a relative said they were inside the home when it burned.
As flames shot through the roof Wednesday morning, neighbors reported explosions, presumably hearing fireworks go off inside. Authorities have not indicated who may have started the fire or why.
Campbell bought $650 of fireworks on Sunday and authorities said fireworks were found throughout the five-bedroom home. Still, it wasn't clear what role the fireworks might have played, though Lusczynski said they could've been used to ignite the fire or keep it going.
Campbell had been an executive for several high-profile businesses. He was currently working at a records management firm and volunteering as treasurer at his children's private school. His wife, Kimberly, was a stay-at-home mom, according to her father, Gordon Lambie.
The family moved to Tampa more than a decade ago. They sold their home in 2012 for $750,000 and signed a two-year lease for the 6,000 square-foot home owned by former tennis pro James Blake. He bought the home in the Avila community in 2005 for $1.5 million, according to property records.