PANAMA CITY -- The second and third alleged shooters in a Panama City gunfight earlier this month have been arrested.
Jerome Watts, 25, was arrested in Pensacola, and Tevin Brown, 22, was arrested in the Eastgate Estates area of Panama City, according to police. Each had been sought by authorities after a June 8 incident in which the occupants of two vehicles exchanged gunfire in the 1000 block of Elm Avenue.
Investigators believe Brown and Watts were targeting 29-year-old Ronald L. Richardson, who was driving a Dodge truck. Richardson told officers, according to PCPD, that he returned fire after Brown and Watts began shooting at him from a Jeep Cherokee. No injuries were reported in the shootout. Brown and Watts fled in the Jeep, police reported, while Richardson was arrested and charged with felon in possession of a firearm, and discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle. Richardson was also charged with possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
Watts was located and arrested June 12 after Pensacola police found a bullet-riddled Jeep Cherokee matching the description given by PCPD. Brown was located by a U.S. Marshals Regional Task Force on Tuesday near 11th Street and Kurze in Panama City.
Wattsand Brown were each charged with felon in possession of a firearm, discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle and discharging a firearm into an occupied vehicle, as well as drug-related charges that do not appear connected to the gunfight. Brown was also charged with three counts of attempted murder in the incident.