A Hillsborough County judge sentenced Ja'Quan Glymp to three life terms in a 2023 construction-site killing.

Three life sentences are the judgment WFLA reported Monday. The station's Oct. 5 story said jury selection was underway and that Glymp faced life if convicted. Monday's story calls the result a conviction and does not say whether a jury or a plea produced it, and it does not say whether the three terms run together or one after another. The man who died is still unnamed in that coverage.

WFLA reported Monday, Oct. 12, 2026, that a Hillsborough County judge handed down three life sentences to Ja'Quan Glymp, who the station said was convicted of murdering a construction supervisor at a townhome development in 2023. The station quoted a Facebook post from the State Attorney's Office saying that during Glymp's sentencing the victim's family described the impact, that he was a hardworking father who went to work that day to provide for his family, and that he left a 10-year-old son. The post, as WFLA quoted it, said no sentence can bring him back and that the office hoped Monday's outcome brought the family some measure of justice. Monday's story does not name the judge, the three counts, or the man who was killed.

The killing those sentences close is the one WFLA described on Oct. 5 and again Monday. In November 2023, the station reported, then-23-year-old Shamek Carter-Bowick and 34-year-old Ja'Quan Glymp entered the Easthaven development in the 9200 block of Rock Harbour Way wearing hard hats and face masks, went into a townhome where the victim was working on drywall, robbed him, stabbed him to death, and fled. Deputies found him with upper-body trauma. He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead. Glymp was arrested days later. Carter-Bowick was taken into custody in Fayetteville, North Carolina, about a month later. Monday's story reports the same entry, the masks, the robbery, and the stabbing, and the same two arrest timelines.

The charge names belong to earlier stories, not to Monday's sentence list. FOX 13 Tampa Bay reported in December 2023 that Glymp was accused of first-degree murder while engaged in a robbery, and that Carter-Bowick was charged with premeditated first-degree murder and robbery while wearing a mask. WFLA reported Oct. 5 that Carter-Bowick, by then 25, was sentenced that Monday to 55 years after pleading guilty to second-degree murder and other charges, and that jury selection was underway in Glymp's case, with life in prison if he was convicted. Monday's story says Glymp was convicted and received three life sentences, and that Carter-Bowick was sentenced last week. It does not say the conviction came from a jury.

The son described in the State Attorney's Office post is 10. He is not named here. Three life terms are what WFLA reported the judge imposed. The station did not say whether those terms are concurrent. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law.