A 20-year-old man is in critical condition after suffering gunshot wounds in Bunnell late Saturday night, according to Bunnell Police Chief Dave Brannon.
The Flagler County Sheriff’s 911 dispatch center got a call at 10:25 p.m. originating from 500 South Drain Street, reporting an adult male getting shot. Responding Bunnell Police officers and Flagler County Sheriff’s deputies rendered life-saving aid to the victim while securing the area for medical responders to arrive.
The gunshot wound was life-threatening. The victim was transported by emergency helicopter to the trauma unit at Halifax Medical Center in Daytona Beach. Early this morning, Bunnell police had reported that the gunshot victim was in stable condition, but his condition had deteriorated to critical by dawn, Brannon reported.
There are no suspects in custody.
Initial reports indicate a fight broke out in the 500 block of South Anderson Street in South Bunnell. Soon after, shots rang out and several persons fled the area on foot and in cars. It is undetermined if the gunshot victim was involved in the fight or an intended target of the shooting.
The Bunnell Police Department is leading this investigation with support from the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office. Detectives are actively working the investigation, likely putting to work the sheriff’s Real Time Crime Center and its network of license plate readers and traffic cameras.
If anyone has information about this incident, they can remain anonymous and call Bunnell Police Detective Sergeant Shane Groth at (386) 600-7950, or CrimeStoppers at (888) 277-TIPS (8477).
Two Saturdays ago, numerous units of the Bunnell police and the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office responded to roughly the same area–the 300 block rather than the 500 block of South Anderson–when an outdoor party attended by between 40 and 60 people turned into a brawl, which led to the arrest of four adults and two juveniles.
On March 22, Bunnell Police Chief Dave Brannon connected the two incidents. “It’s still an active investigation, so I can’t get too deep into it, but it’s my understanding is actually spills over from the fight that occurred two weeks ago,” Brannon said. “One of the parties that was involved in that fight was upset at the outcome of that incident, and decided he wanted to fight an individual that was involved. And when the fight didn’t go his way, he decided to mete out some other form of violence by grabbing a pistol and starting to shoot at people and relatively innocent bystander. The victim in this case has no criminal history, has never had a run in with law enforcement that we could find, but was just standing there watching the fight and actually video recorded it and it was just in between the two when the bullets started flying. He still remains in critical condition at Halifax in Daytona. But we we’re making very good progress with this case, and I hope to be able to share some good news on that here soon.”
Pogo says
@Thoughts and prayers
Joe D says
It used to be that IF there was a shooting, people got concerned in the area….now it’s more like HOW MANY shootings have happened in the past few days.
Not surprising with Florida’s lax gun laws, no permit, little to no background checking, and NO mandatory gun safety training!
New CNN article lists the US as accounting for only 4% of the world’s population, but US citizens own 40% of global firearms!!! More than 1 gun for every man, woman, and child…
It’s only going to get WORSE as more people use firearms to SETTLE an argument as the FIRST choice!
Brian says
So Joe, please share with us what law would have prevented this? A gun is an inanimate object, and requires human interaction to function. And unfortunately, some “humans” are prone to criminal and savage activity, and do not give a rats ass about laws. Bunnell is unfortunately well known for this.
Alex says
Maybe because we own 40% of global arms is the reason Russia and China won’t dare to invade us. Not only they have to worry about our military defense they have to also worry about the citizens too.
TR says
Don’t know if it’s connected, but last night in front of my house in palm coast two male’s were taken into custody for an incident that happened in Bunnell. The scene was active until about 20 minutes ago when the car the guys were driving got impounded. If these two were involved in any way they need to be charged with whatever they can be and I hope the other young man will survive.
atwp says
Hope he will recover.
JimboXYZ says
Kinda figured the location was in the same general proximity of recent events that escalated in Bunnell. May or may not be retaliatory ? Doesn’t matter, just needs to be ended really. Just not a good look or read for news for Flagler County. On Facebook, FCSO reported Sheriff Staly had to stop by after a Tim McGraw concert for the investigation.
The Geode says
These weren’t just mere “gunshots” from .22s and .38s – BOTH parties was cutting loose with some “Afghanistan-type” shit.
Had me pondering, “I think I need bigger guns”…
TR says
Not sure if this is a connection. But last night just before 11pm 4 deputy cars followed a car into the driveway across the street from my house with lights on and the deputies (with guns drawn) ordered the occupants of the vehicle to exit with hands in the air. I saw two guys placed in handcuffs and put into a patrol car. One occupant was released a short time later and was told to go home. (Lives about 1 1/2 blocks away) then the search of said vehicle started and then more deputies showed up along with a few detectives. I finally decided to go to bed at 2am. Woke this morning at 6am and there was just one deputy watching the car and the car was still in the driveway. About 7am I went to speak to the deputy about a different matter that took place on the 1st with the same description of the car they were watching. He didn’t give much details but did say that something happened in Bunnell last night and they were waiting to impound the car to be searched but needed to wait on the search warrant. The people living in the house weren’t involved other than the two guys knew the daughter and thought it was a good idea to pull in the driveway. Never a dull moment in PC that’s for sure. Apparently this is what happened in Bunnell and these two were involved some how. I hope the young man lives and if they find out the guy they arrested last night was involved, they charge him with whatever charges they can lay on him. The area of Bunnell is loaded with drug dealings and I’ll bet this was another drug deal gone bad.
Denali says
So if I understand you correctly, a Flagler County Deputy spent five hours (and probably several more) standing watch on a private vehicle for which they were applying for a search warrant. Ever see a deputy standing outside a a building that they were trying to get a search warrant. Something just ain’t right here. What was the deputy going to do if the legal owner of the vehicle appeared and attempted to drive off? Arrest him? On what charge? ‘We are trying to get a search warrant?’ That just does not fly straight, even in Florida. They have the cart way in front of the horse here – If you have probable cause, get a warrant and then search the vehicle. SCOTUS has ruled that the police may detain a vehicle for a reasonable amount of time – five plus hours is far from ‘reasonable’.
TR says
Yep, Like I said they were sitting waiting to tow the vehicle. The legal owner of the vehicle was one of the guys arrested so I doubt he would come back and drive away. Plus if it is to be searched because of the occupants being involved in the shooting of the 20 yr old. I doubt the owner would just be able to drive the car away.
You don’t have to believe me but I have surveillance footage of the entire thing. As far as a building goes. A building can not be moved like a vehicle can so I would guess that if there was a situation of searching a building with a search warrant. No one would be allowed to entire the building until the search is complete. Owner or not.
dave says
Appears to be the norm these days in Flagler Cty. Fights that turn into murder scenes. Welcome to the land of undesirables where violence is the first step, instead of talk and walking away.
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Jackson Gallagher says
These men can get a gun easier than they can get a job