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Sebring Police Department investigates shooting incident
JOE SEELIG
Published: September 5, 2012
SEBRING - Police were investigating Tuesday a shooting incident late Saturday night at the intersection of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Lemon Avenue in which several people reported being shot at.Published: September 5, 2012
Police officer Joshua Copeland reported he was dispatched to investigate the shooting complaint at 11:31 p.m. Saturday. Although two of those who were shot at fired back, evidently no one was hit.
The victims reported they were standing on Lemon Avenue when unknown people shot at them from an undisclosed type of vehicle. A great deal of information was redacted from the police narrative report.
The number of actual shots fired was also cut from the report.
Copeland reported that two of the victims told him they were armed with handguns at the time of the investigation, which Copeland retrieved and secured in his patrol car.
He spotted spent rifle shell casings on Lemon Avenue and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, which he collected for evidence.
More of the shell casings were recovered further down on Lemon Avenue.
A tire was flattened on a Ford pickup truck on Lemon Avenue, and a Chrysler passenger vehicle had bullet holes in it as well as a flat tire.
No arrests had been made by press time.
jseelig@highlandstoday.com (863) 386-5834