TPD: Man killed at Apalachee Parkway shopping center in second fatal shooting of weekend

Posted by Admin September 29, 2024 Shopping

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A man was shot and killed early Sunday morning at the Parkway Center shopping plaza on Apalachee Parkway.

The Tallahassee Police Department said a call came in around 2:15 a.m. about a shooting in the parking lot of the shopping center, located at 1147 Apalachee Parkway.

“Upon arrival, officers located an adult male unresponsive with a gunshot wound,” TPD said in social media posts. “Medical attention was provided to the victim, but unfortunately he was pronounced deceased on scene.”

No other details were provided about the shooting or the circumstances.

TPD said its Violent Crimes Unit and Forensics Unit were investigating. The department announced no arrests and did not immediately say whether there are any suspects.

“This remains an open and active investigation and updates will be provided as more information becomes available,” TPD said.

It was the second murder investigation of the weekend. On Friday, TPD launched a homicide investigation after finding a man dead inside a hemp store. Officers arrived just before 6 p.m. at the Florida Hemp Distribution store, 220 W. Tennessee St., where a man killed by gunshots. “All involved parties have been identified,” but no one had been taken into custody as of Friday night, a TPD spokesperson said.

It was also the second time this year that fatal gunfire broke out at the shopping center, which is located in the virtual shadow of the Capitol complex. On May 12, two days after the tornado outbreak in Tallahassee, multiple people were shot, including two men who died. Sunday’s shooting happened just a little over 48 hours after Hurricane Helene made landfall in Taylor County.

The incident marked the 48th serious shooting in the capital city and county this year. According to a Tallahassee Democrat analysis of gun violence, 19 people have died and at least 39 people have been injured so far in 2024.

The back-to-back shootings break a summer lull in gun violence.

In 2023, 24 people died and at least 72 were injured in 87 serious shootings in the capital city and county. They year generated a string of sobering statistics, many from the summer when the city endured a surge in shootings.

According to a Tallahassee Democrat analysis of gun violence, the summer spike in crime included three separate double homicides, a mass shooting, three murders in a single 24-hour span and five accidental shootings — three of them fatal — in a single month.

Contact Jeff Burlew at jburlew@tallahassee.com or 850-599-2180.