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Man Shot 4 Times In Altercation

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By LISA A. DAVIS

ldavis@tampatrib.com

Published: February 13, 2009

DADE CITY - The gunshots started as the 25-year-old mother drove her young family down the road Tuesday night around 10:30 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 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 County Sheriff's Office report, pointed what looked to be a pistol at his head.

The father put his hands up in front of him as someone started shooting, hitting him 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 still in his body, a report states.

The victim's name is being withheld by The Tampa Tribune because the men are at large.

The incident is under investigation. It wasn't reported until sometime Wednesday.

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

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