A city councilman and the NAACP are asking that the street where 8-year-old Paris Whitehead-Hamilton was killed in a drive-by shooting be renamed in her honor. ...more

May 6, 2009

The last three suspects that police say were involved in the fatal shooting of an 8-year-old St. Petersburg girl have been arrested. ...more

April 8, 2009

Police Chief Chuck Harmon today released the sequence of escalating events that led to Sunday's drive-by shooting that claimed the life of an 8-year-old girl, while the girl's family urged the members of the two warring groups involved to stop their cycle of revenge. ...more

April 7, 2009

Police are investigating three drive-by shootings over the weekend that one victim believes might be related to a fight at a high school football game. One woman's home was shot at twice within three hours, St. Petersburg police spokesman George Kajtsa said. ...more

December 15, 2008

The suspect in a Sept. 7 drive-by shooting in Highway Park is next scheduled to appear in court Nov. 12 for a pretrial conference. ...more

November 1, 2008

A Highlands County press release reveals new information in connection with a drive-by shooting in Highway Park Sept 7 for which a Lake Placid man is a suspect. ...more

September 16, 2008

A Lake Placid man remained in Highlands County Jail in lieu of $110,500 bond Monday after he was arrested Friday night and charged in connection with a drive-by shooting in Highway Park Sept. 7. Elbert McFarlane Heron, 28, of 130 Zion St., was booked on charges of attempted second-degree murder, firing a weapon or discharging a firearm in public, firing a deadly missile into an occupied dwelling, vehicle or building and firing a deadly missile into an occupied vehicle. ...more

September 15, 2008

LAKE PLACID Eight shots were fired but no one was injured Sunday night during a drive-by shooting in the 100 block of Anderson Street, in Highway Park, according to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. ...more

September 9, 2008

Eight shots were fired but no one was injured Sunday night during a drive-by shooting in the 100 block of Anderson Street, in Highway Park, according to the Highlands County Sheriff's Office. The sheriff's office received the 911 call at about 10:42 p.m. Sunday. ...more

September 8, 2008

TAMPA - Deputies are investigating a reported drive-by shooting that left one man wounded in the arm. Dwayne Wilson, 30, of 4907 79th St. S., said he was sitting on his front porch about 2:15 a.m. Tuesday, when a car pulled up and a man shot at him from the front passenger's window, Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office spokeswoman Debbie Carter said. ...more

June 10, 2008