LADY LAKE, Fla. – One person was killed and another was injured in a shooting in Lady Lake, according to the police department.
The shooting happened on Friday on Caroline Avenue just before 1 a.m.
Officers received reports of a shooting and found one person shot multiple times. The department said the person was pronounced dead at the scene. That person was later identified as 20-year-old Bryson Leverette, of Leesburg.
Another person suffering from gunshot wounds went to police and then was taken to a hospital.
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Omar Wilson lives down the street from where the shooting took place and said the gunshots woke up the whole neighborhood.
“Just gunfire,” Wilson said. “That’s all I heard. Woke up the wife and I — woke up the whole neighborhood.”
Wilson said he checked on several neighbors once he heard the gunfire.
“My buddy next door, Jean, he wasn’t home, so I grabbed my weapon, and I went out the back door and my wife stood in the living room and checked his house — nothing at his house,” Wilson said. “So I got two 21-year-old girls that live right next door, really nice people. So, I went there next and made sure nobody was messing with them. And then I went back in the house, and that’s when I saw the fire truck show up.”
Lady Lake Interim Police Chief Steven Hunt said they’re working with multiple agencies to try and find answers.
“We think this is an isolated incident at this time,” Hunt said. “We’re just working very hard to gather information and anybody knows anything.”
There is no information on a suspected shooter and the victims’ names have not been released.
Police are urging people with information to either call the Lady Lake Police Department, the Lake County Sheriff’s Office or CRIMELINE at 800-423-8477.
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