By: Chad Cookler
BARTOW - A Bartow woman was shot and killed by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, who claims she attacked him first, investigators say.
According to the Bartow Police Department, 24-year-old Tanya Thomas was shot around 4 a.m. Saturday at the Peace River Trailer Park on SR-60.
She was taken to Lakeland Medical Center where she later died.
Her boyfriend, 32-year-old Ryan Willis, told police that Thomas attacked him with a knife and that he shot her in self-defense.
The pair had been dating on-and-off for two years, Willis said. No charges have been filed at this point, but the investigation is still active.
An autopsy will be performed Sunday.
Tanya only loved him she called him when she got her christmas check and told him that it would be better between them since she had a lil money. So u know he came back to her to spend that money. I think this was set up. He shot her at 4 and she wasnt airlifted till 4:55 he and his dad the ex police chief had all that time to change the seen of the crime. Its funny how nicks dad got there before the cops or ambulance dont u think? He know already what the crime seen would be looking for. why would the girl wake him up and tell him to leave and wait till hes gettin his stuff together why not just shoot the bastard while he was asleep. which if he was sleeping at 3am then why was he cought on sunoce's cameras steeling glasses at 2 s=omething in the morning. something with this story is not right tanya love nick with her whole heart and she would do anything to be with him. Who else would let him go back and forth from her to another girl , whom is probably buying into this whole self defence crock. Nicks dad taught him how to shoot and how to aim he is 32 so god knows how long he has been walking around with these guns, he has one under his belt at all times. so He knows how to aim them and when he aimed for her head he knew he was gonna kill her, that way there would only be one side of the story. Only nick and tanya(R.I.P)knows what happend that night and he knows what he did. tanya would do any thing to stay with him. She would cry all the time about him. He was he first love and he killed her. I think the min he shot her he calld his daddy and and asked him what to do and like i said his parents were there before the cops and all so they coulda put her prints on a knife and called it self defence. Like i said there is something not adding up . what did he do to her to make her come at him with a knife. they would offen get in bad fights and he would always hit her first be fore she would lash back. she would claw his face off before she tried to kill him. She was just a poor soul lost in life thought that he would be the only person to love her. She was 24 way too young for him to take her life from her. AND NOW HE MIGHT WALK. Her land lord watched police take a sheriffs badge from a bag in his trunk along with drugs and no charges were filed. thats weird huh? who else but a cops kid would be out of jail right now??? R.I.P Tanya mae Thomas you will be missed very much gurl I love u ...
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