The Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office (LCSO) has arrested a teen after shots were fired Friday afternoon on the eastbound exit ramp at I-10 and Thomasville Road. <\/p>\n
Three vehicles were hit. Two people in separate vehicles were struck.\u00a0A woman was hurt and a man was seriously injured.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The sheriff\u2019s office says with help from the Capital Region Real Time Crime Center, they identified a person of interest and determined that one of the victims was known to the suspect and was the intended target.<\/p>\n
A 17-year-old is charged with two counts of Attempted Murder and three counts of Shooting into an Occupied Vehicle.<\/p>\n
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LCSO press release:<\/p>\n
LCSO Deputies Arrest Suspect in I-10\/Thomasville Road Shooting<\/p>\n
Friday, October 3rd, at approximately 5:23 p.m., the Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office responded after gunshots were fired, hitting three vehicles on the eastbound ramp at I-10 and Thomasville Rd. Two individuals, in separate vehicles, were also struck as the suspect, a passenger in an additional vehicle, fired gunshots into traffic.\u00a0<\/p>\n
One victim, an adult black male, was life flighted to a hospital outside of the county with serious injuries. The second victim, an adult white female, was taken to a local hospital and treated for non life threatening injuries.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Through investigative means, LCSO detectives and criminal analysts, as well as analysts at the Capital Region Real Time Crime Center, identified a person of interest and determined that one of the shooting victims, the adult black male, was known to the suspect and was the intended target of the shooting.<\/p>\n
LCSO investigators worked through the night, following leads, obtaining search warrants and interviewing witnesses.<\/p>\n
This afternoon, LCSO arrested 17-year-old Jakhari Williams. \u00a0Williams is charged with two counts of Attempted Murder and three counts of Shooting into an Occupied Vehicle.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to say a heart-felt thank you to our LCSO team and members of the Real Time Crime Center, who worked tirelessly, non-stop, to bring a successful and swift conclusion to this investigation,\u201d said Sheriff Walt McNeil.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Leon County Sheriff\u2019s Office (LCSO) has arrested a teen after shots were fired Friday afternoon on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18404,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-18403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18403\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}