Glenwood residents awakened to more bloodshed Sunday and parishioners headed to Mt. Olive Baptist detoured around crime scene tape as Panama City police investigated the city’s 10th homicide of the year.
A Panama City Police Department news release said the late-night shooting death Saturday remained under investigation and no arrests had been made. Officers responding to a complaint of shots fired around 8:45 p.m. Saturday in the 700 block of E. 13th St. found a black male with gunshot wounds. He was taken to Bay Medical Center where he was pronounced dead.
The man’s name had not been released Sunday morning, nor was there any indication if any suspects had been developed, though the release said investigators “continue to develop leads.”
Police said the shooting “appears to be a targeted attack, as there were several other people in the area at the time, that were not fired upon.” Police also said there appeared to be one gunman.
By 9 a.m. Sunday morning the visible reminders of a shooting consisted of crime scene tape stripped across the 13th Court from its intersection with Martin Luther King Jr., Boulevard to about a half block to the east, toward Mt. Olive Baptist Church. The tape reached behind a motel and seemed to include the property adjacent to the hotel.
A Panama City Police Department patrol car sat on both sides of the tape on 13th Street.
The shooting death marks Panama City’s 10th of the year, compared to three in all of 2013.
Most recently, three people were arrested after the shooting death of 17-year-old Curtis Hunt Tuesday on Kraft Avenue and a fourth suspect is still being sought.
Police are asking anyone with information to contact Det. Rogers at 850-872-3100, or they can report their tips anonymous to CrimeStoppers at 850-785-TIPS.
This report has been updated to reflect the number of homicides in Panama City this year.