MAN KILLS 3 OFFICERS IN TAMPA, FLORIDA A number of unanswered questions remain three years after a father is accused of killing his stepson. The accusation came from the police and not from the little boy's mother. Another father is falsely accused by police officers acting as judge, jury and executioner. Did the police change the father's story after incarcerating him? Why would an intelligent person change their testimony about the death of their son? Did the police coerce the father into changing his story or did the police simply and arbitrarily change the father's story. The police's version of the facts simply do not add up. A man being questioned in the death of his stepson wiggled out of his handcuffs and fatally shot 3 police officers before killing himself in a gas station surrounded by police. Early in the four-hour standoff, Hank Earl Carr had told the radio station that he would not surrender only to "fry in the electric chair" for killing two Tampa homicide detectives and a state trooper. Police shot tear gas into the station, fired off a stun grenade behind the building, and rushed inside, where they found Carr dead of a self inflicted gun shot wound to the head. A gas station clerk who was taken hostage was freed unharmed minutes earlier. "It was a situation where this individual had already certainly proved himself to be a danger towards law enforcement", said Hernando County Sheriff Tom Mylander. "We felt that this was the best way to solve this without endangering our officers." As a sun set on a ten hour ordeal that began with what Carr claimed was the accidental shooting of his 4 year old stepson, black smoke rose from the station, located 50 miles North of Tampa. Tampa detectives Randy Bell and Ricky Childers were driving Carr to police headquarters for questioning in the shooting death of his stepson when he squeezed out of his handcuffs. "I was trying to explain to them exactly what happened and they started calling me a liar, and said I was going to jail and prison." Carr said in the phone call he made from the gas station to the radio station WFLA from Tampa. " I got one of the handcuffs off, and I reached up front and got the pistol away from Childers, the officer that was driving. The other one jumped in the back seat trying to get the gun away. I shot them both." said Carr. Carr said he grabbed his rifle from the trunk of the car, commandeered a truck and fled North along Interstate 75. It was 2p.m. about four hours after his stepson's death. "The police were shooting at me from every underpass I went under."Carr said, explaining that he was shot in the buttocks.Florida Highway Patrol trooper, 23, tried to stop Carr near a highway exit about ten miles from the gas station and was killed as they exchanged gunfire. Carr then crashed into another patrol car and shot at a truck driver who suffered minor injuries. He pulled of the highway when an officer blew out the tires of the pickup truck and he fled into a gas station, as shots rang out around him. Roger Swartz said he was walking from the gas station to his truck when Carr came squealing around the corner, shots flying. A friend knocked Swartz to the ground and they took cover behind his truck as Carr jumped still shooting from the moving pickup. Carr had told the radio station that his son's death was accidental and he did not want to go to prison or be electrocuted. He was allowed to speak by phone to his wife who was at a police command center set up near the gas station. "I can't see giving myself up to fry in the electric chair. If anything I'll shoot myself." About an hour before the officers were shot, television cameras captured Bell and Childers, their weapons in their shoulder holsters, as they led Carr from his home into an unmarked vehicle. His hands were cuffed in the front. Carr and his wife, Bernice, told detectives that his stepson was identified by police as Joseph Bennett, was dragging the rifle behind him when they yelled at him to put it down. The gun went off and Joseph was shot in the head, the couple said. Tampa Police spokesman Steve Cole said Carr changed his story during questioning at police headquarters. "He said he had gotten the gun away from the child and it accidentally went off. He shot the child." Cole said. (judge, jury and executioner)