The Tallahassee Police Department is searching for leads after a man who was shot crashed his vehicle in southeast Tallahassee and later died.
The homicide investigation began a little after 7 p.m. when the victim drove himself to to the area of Capital Circle Southeast and Midyette Road before crashing his vehicle.
“The victim was transported to a local hospital and sadly succumbed to injuries sustained in the shooting,” a police spokesperson wrote in an incident alert posted on social media. “At this time, detectives are working to determine where the shooting took place.”
No other details were provided as police investigate. Detectives ask anyone who may have witnessed the incident to call TPD at 850-891-4200. They may also remain anonymous by calling Crime Stoppers at 850-574-TIPS
This year, four people have been killed and at least 25 injured in 32 shootings in the capital city and county, according to a Tallahassee Democrat analysis of gun violence.
The shooting comes two nights after about 80 people gathered to brainstorm ways to prevent the ongoing threat of gun violence in the capital city. The event, called the 1,000 Men Community Meeting, was the launch for the Tallahassee Council on the Status of Men and Boys’ community-wide survey.
The council, a crime-prevention initiative effort headed by Leon County Sheriff Walt McNeil and Royle King, recently received an extra $350,000 from the city for violence intervention after it was redirected from out-of-town experts with the Group Violence Intervention program.
Some of those who attended expressed frustration that the same conversations keep occurring without action and “putting the money where it really counts.”
“They need people that they see on the regular, people that they see throughout every day,” a local barber said said. “Other than that, we’re just gonna have these conversations over and over again, and it’ll go down as a bookmark and say that we did it, but it’s not gonna change.”
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