So far this year, there have been 20 shootings in Tallahassee. From those, 7 people have died and 15 were injured. That’s a slight reduction from the numbers last year at this time. But those who commit gun violence in Tallahassee continue to find unlocked vehicles the easiest source of firearms.<\/p>\n
“We’ve had over 1,000 guns stolen from vehicles since 2021. And over 90% of those guns were left in unlocked vehicles.”<\/p>\n
Deputy Tallahassee Police Chief Maurice Holmes was among the speakers on Friday, April 17 at an anti-gun violence event at the Piggly-Wiggly shopping center on South Adams Street. Shonda Knight with the Leon County Sheriff’s Office said more “law-abiding gun owners” have a big part to play in halting the easy availability of firearms.<\/p>\n
“We have to be responsible. If you’re going to be responsible enough to purchase a weapon and do it the right way, you have to secure it the right way. Take it out of your vehicle and lock your vehicle at night.”<\/p>\n
Other offerings at Friday’s Tallahassee Urban League event included booths for voter registration, health screenings and a Croc footwear giveaway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"So far this year, there have been 20 shootings in Tallahassee. From those, 7 people have died and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238012,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-238011","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\/238011","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=238011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238011\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}