According to witnesses, a “verbal altercation ensued between two groups” over reckless jet ski driving near an area where children were playing in the water. The dispute escalated when some members of each group began shooting at each other, police said.
said the shooting occurred around 8:30 p.m. local time Tuesday along the Courtney Campbell Causeway west of Ben T. Davis Beach, police said in a news release Wednesday.
“When officers arrived, they found a 7-year-old victim with a gunshot wound to his head and the victim’s grandfather who suffered a gunshot wound to his hand,” police said in the news release. “During the shooting, the grandfather was attempting to shield his 7-year-old grandson from the gunfire when they both were struck,” police said.In a news conference Wednesday, Tampa Police Departmentsaid the grandfather grabbed the 7-year-old boy and pulled him into a truck when he heard the gunfire.
“When they were inside the vehicle, a round went through the vehicle, hit the grandfather in the finger and the young man in the head,” Johnson said in the news conference.Tampa police are asking anyone who may have information on the case to call the department. Detectives are still investigating, police said.
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