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18-Year-Old Man Shot in the Arm Near Flagler Beach Fire Station; Alleged Assailant at Large

May 5, 2024 | FlaglerLive | 19 Comments

The scene outside the Flagler Beach Fire Department this evening. (© FlaglerLive)
The scene outside the Flagler Beach Fire Department this evening. (© FlaglerLive)

An 18-year-old man was shot in the arm in the vicinity of the Flagler Beach Fire Department and taken to the hospital with the non-life-threatening injury this evening, Flagler Beach Police Chief Matt Doughney said. The alleged assailant fled the city and is unknown and at large for now.

“We’re still trying to figure out putting the pieces together,” Doughney said. “There were a lot of kids around here, we’re trying to figure out” what happened. The suspect “is no longer here,” but “it doesn’t appear that there’s any safety concerns for anybody in Flagler Beach,” the chief said.




But Doughney noted: “We don’t believe he’s a danger in our city, don’t know who he is but we believe he’s taken flight out of the city, but yeah, whoever that person is, he does pose a danger, he shot somebody in our city.”

The Flagler Beach Police Department and the Flagler County Sheriff’s Office are jointly investigating the shooting. The number of young people at the scene of the shooting suggests investigators may have witnesses. It is also likely that, between the city’s own license plate readers and those of the Sheriff’s Office, in place at the bridge and at other key points in and out of the city, authorities will at least have some indications about people who left the area of the shooting by car. Doughney said video is being analyzed.

The sheriff’s Major Case Unit and its Crime Scene Investigations unit have responded, as has the city’s detective Rosanna Vinci and others.

The shooting took place at 6:38 p.m. on South Flagler Avenue. The avenue from the city’s Fire Department to South 7th Street is closed to traffic.

Doughney said he was confident that between his department and the Sheriff’s Office, “we’ll figure it out and find the person resp. This doesn’t happen very often in Flagler Beach. We do everything we can to make sure it doesn’t, and when it does, we will not rest until we figure out who did this.”

The last shooting in the city took place late last November when a person with mental issues went on a shooing spree within his room at the Topaz Motel. No one was hurt. The man faces four felonies. His case is still wending its way through Circuit Court.

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  1. Dan says

    May 5, 2024 at 9:28 pm

    I have respect for police officers and I think Mr. Doughney is great, but Wickline park is out of control. There might not be shooting, but there’s fighting and gang activity. These kids hang out in large groups and are totally disrespectful to the residents and police officers. I’ve experienced it firsthand. I usually don’t post online, but I can’t stay silent on this.

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  2. gw says

    May 5, 2024 at 9:46 pm

    Thanks for the quick updates. As you said, rare event here.

  3. JimboXYZ says

    May 6, 2024 at 2:07 am

    Weird Sunday afternoon, Earlier in the day Belle Terre was closed off from FL-100 to Eastwood Dr/Market Ave. Looked like FCSO & Fire Department types as traffic was diverted to Market Ave to the Town Center area North of FPC HS. Anyway, this Flagler Beach crime is bizarre in that nobody was able to get a car description or tag at the time of that event.

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  4. jim lang says

    May 6, 2024 at 6:16 am

    Our safe little community is no longer safe. Too many people moving here. Used to enjoy living here but no more.

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  5. Doug says

    May 6, 2024 at 9:08 am

    Before the “Great Escape from New York” and the surrounding northern states, Flagler County was a relatively safe, enjoyable place to live and raise a family. Very sad as to what it has become. Thank your local politicians.

  6. Billy says

    May 6, 2024 at 9:28 am

    This is called progress! The more the city expands crime will run rampant. Drugs, guns, gangs it’s all coming to Palm Coast immediately.

  7. FedupinFlagler says

    May 6, 2024 at 10:58 am

    When are the police in FB going to get proactive? You can’t walk down the boardwalk without smelling someone blazing up on the beach or seeing underage drinking right out in the open. The PD is letting this go on. There is absolutely no police presence on the beach and now it’s spilling out into the streets. Get out of your cars and do some police work! Stop making it so comfortable for the criminals in this town. Make it as uncomfortable for them as they are for the families trying to enjoy our town. Commissioners, why aren’t you holding the PD accountable? Pull some statistics. How many citizen encounters are officers making? How many tickets are they writing? What kind of proactive policing are they engaged in? It’s a slippery slope and you lost your footing years ago. Step up your game this is just the beginning.

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  8. Pogo says

    May 6, 2024 at 3:52 pm

    @Just focus on people with a gun

    Never mind.

  9. Laurel says

    May 6, 2024 at 4:08 pm

    Enjoy your growth! More crime means more taxes to pay for more crime fighting.

  10. Pat Stote says

    May 6, 2024 at 4:40 pm

    Are you certain the person at large it’s from New York or surrounding area and where are you from originally?

  11. R Smoke says

    May 6, 2024 at 7:51 pm

    Lol..please explain how you know the suspect is from NY

  12. Native Floridian says

    May 6, 2024 at 8:34 pm

    Hey Pat, I am from here..born and raised 51 years. You New York and New Jesery people who are fleeing the places that you either ruined or were too cowardly to change have caused all the problems here. You are like locust, destroy one place and move to another to destroy. My first house here was on the water and had a pool and a dock. I paid $85,000 for it and my taxes were less than $800/yearly. Now the same place has taxes over $14,000 and I am surrounded by tax and spend liberals who say they are conserative.

  13. Sam says

    May 6, 2024 at 9:21 pm

    Fb the new DB. Or rather an expanded DB.

    The editing in this article is atrocious, by the way. And it was not speedy information. As the story was breaking FlaglerLive didn’t have any information on it.

  14. Resident says

    May 7, 2024 at 7:13 am

    Flagler Beach police are only known to write parking tickets and sit in empty parking lots.
    1. Catholic Church Lot
    2. Behind new apartments on Roberts Rd
    3. Behind Wadsworth Park

    Chief Downey needs to start doing his job and have the officers patrolling the streets instead of hiding. Only a handful actually work. This department has been understaffed to too long. Either the department can work or get a new Chief. Its sad when the County residents know its a free for all at the beach. Zero enforcement on the beach and boardwalk area. Its only going to get worse until something changes.

  15. JimboXYZ says

    May 7, 2024 at 3:29 pm

    That’s the new criminal, a juvenile delinquent. Is it any wonder schools are resembling prisons. The P-Section schools, that’s a daily ritual of hearing a PA system instructing the juvenile inmates that it’s time to go to classes or whatever the PSA is. SRO’s need an AR-15. and everyday the schools unleash the juvenile delinquent domestic terrorists back into their residentials to terrorize their neighbors.

  16. Bri says

    May 7, 2024 at 4:04 pm

    Native of where and what??? Don’t say a native of Palm Coast? “New York” ITT built this place! These fake Florida Natives crack me. I wonder where these two were from?
    “A Man Is Dead, Another in Custody in Flagler Beach Shooting Following Neighbors’ Dispute”
    https://flaglerlive.com/flagler-beach-shooting/#gsc.tab=0

    I will say after 9/11, it took a few years around 2003 -2004 this place changed overnight with leaps and bounds.

  17. Jonnydcash says

    May 8, 2024 at 7:21 am

    Just a little bit extreme thinking there or to much social media viewing for you .

  18. Sick and Tired says

    May 9, 2024 at 9:37 am

    Flagler Beach can have gang activity and shootouts as long as everyone is parking the correct way.

  19. KB says

    May 14, 2024 at 12:48 pm

    ???? That makes NO sense

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