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Man Shot On Pasco Road In Front Of Wife And Son, 5

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By LISA A. DAVIS | The Tampa Tribune

Published: February 12, 2009

The gunshots started as the 25-year-old mother drove her family down the road about 10:30 Tuesday night after a trip to a convenience store.

Her husband, also 25, told her to stop when they spotted a group of four or five men firing off guns at the intersection of Julian and Gaddis streets. He was nervous, he later told deputies, because the couple's 5-year-old son was riding with them.

The father got out of their vehicle and confronted the gun-wielding group. One of the men, according to a Pasco Sheriff's Office report, pointed what looked to be a pistol at his head.

The father immediately put his hands up in front of him and someone immediately started shooting, hitting him first three times in the arms and once in the back as he ran toward his family's Isuzu Rodeo.

He jumped in the car and told his wife to drive to the hospital. She did. The woman and their son weren't injured.

The father was taken to a local hospital and then transferred to another hospital so surgeons could remove two projectiles in his body, a report states.

The man's name is being withheld by The Tampa Tribune because the suspects are still at large. This incident wasn't reported until sometime Wednesday.

Detectives are investigating the case.

Reporter Lisa A. Davis can be reached at (727) 815-1083.

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