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GPD investigating shooting near E. University and Waldo Road

September 2, 2023
Image courtesy Gainesville Police Department

Staff report

Updated at 11:40 a.m. on September 3 with confirmed information from GPD.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville Police Department is investigating a shooting that happened at about 6:02 p.m. this evening in the 200 block of NE Waldo Road. One person was shot in the head and has been transported to the hospital.

GPD is asking any members of the public with information regarding this incident to please call 352-955-1818 or the Alachua County Crime Stoppers at 352-372-STOP.

      • I know I’m in that area to much it happened in the bush right next to Walgreens were they fire up drugs constantly

      • Sure bill Knows What he Is talking about the east side gainesville 85 % of the crime is drugs, shootings

    • how do you know? The shooter is a criminal but that doesn’t mean the victim is- there are plenty of innocent people living in poverty who are unintentionally victimized in these low-income, high-crime areas. Also, announcing your lack of empathy for others is a weird thing to do. Keep it to yourself buddy.

  • Instead of focusing on a specific group, maybe community leaders should refocus their efforts towards one side of Main Street.
    For those keeping count – it’s not the west side.

    Wonder what the odds are of surviving East and West Gainesville if walking the sidewalks and minding your own business? No wonder many of the people I see walking choose to do it in the mornings and city leaders are scurrying to get home before the sun sets.

    Keep believing they’ll keep you safe…

  • Lived for 27 years in the Duckpond. One of the brothers shooting at me in daylight was the last straw. Left the county in 2020. GPD didn’t arrest because the officer said “he didn’t mean it”. In other words, anything goes. Unless the brothers are held to civilized standards in all cases, civilization is finished.

      • Lies about what? What Fred Sanford said? Or that a shooting happened? Or the fact that the liberal media in Gainesville is not reporting this? WHO, WHAT, WHERE, WHEN, AND WHY are they lies?

    • if you left the county in 2020 why are you still so obsessed with it that you’re checking our news three years later?????

      • Because unfortunately I still have an office in Gainesville. I left downtown because that went to hell and the current office location is unsafe after dark.

  • City needs to get a refund for that phony gun symposium they hosted last month.
    Shootings are way up, it appears that GPD is not equipped to handle the job.
    Staff shortages, resignations, terminations, ect.. not enough boots on the ground.
    That plus city hall, state attorney & good ole Chief Lonnie keep catch & release an active sport in Gainesville.
    Let’s see who the governor appoints to replace Clovis. Maybe time for annexation to become a reality.

    • Why should the county be responsible for city crime. They have enough to worry about and don’t keep up with.

    • Why…isn’t it elementary dear Watson? Gangbangers & dopers doing what dey B doin for years. If only there was ‘equity’ and the violent ones were ALL held accountable and put in jail.

  • I find it interesting that the Alachua Chronicle seems to be the only news outlet reporting on these shootings. Crickets on the other local news outlets. I guess they are more happy to report about Uncle Joe making political stops in Live Oak and Gainesville.

  • We should focus on black on black crime in Northeast Gainesville reason being there is not enough officers that are getting involved with with the community but instead our stereotyping every black man as being troublemakers when I was young coming up in Gainesville there were things for the youth to do there was an interest in the black community if there’s someone to blame blame the governor of the state who has passed various laws pertaining to black people like the killing of affirmative action wanting to take black history out of schools lack of education has led to this shooting.

    • There are still things to do besides what some are choosing to do.
      You expect “officers to be more involved” when you can’t even get the communities that are being affected the most to be involved? Parents need to be more involved – both parents. They’re involved when there’s a sporting event happening. The politicians rarely get involved until election time. They voted to redistribute funding for law enforcement, took away resources to assist officers and many think that was going to help. Has it? Feeling safer now than you did 4 years ago?
      The only people who don’t get an education are those who choose not to. The opportunities are there, take advantage of it instead of blaming others.

      • @ You voted for it, you got it: Spot-on- 100%!
        It allllll starts at home!

      • Hey there I raised my children a minority of the neighborhood of of a demographic that are the minority.. YEARS .. VERY WONDERFUL MEMORIES. AND YES MUCH LESS TO DO AND SO MANY MORE LAWS AND POVERTY. I know this was a sad situation. And we absolutely love our community.

    • Blame someone else for a specific group problems. Affirmative action has nothing to do with a specific group shooting and killing each other. As far as law enforcement is concerned targeting high crime areas is a start. Can’t run to Haile Plantation when the shooting is happening in the east. Unfortunely if the shoe fits well so be it.

    • Sounds like when you were coming up kids knew their fathers and the fathers were actively in their lives. Kids black and white kids were taught respect if got into trouble at school you got your butt whipped when you got home now day kids black and white tell their parents what to do and parents put up with it. You can’t blame today’s actions on the schools or government it has to start with the parents

    • Donnie, affirmative action (the hiring of the least qualified) has been in place for decades, it’s reverse racism, hasn’t worked, the governor didn’t take black history out of schools, he eliminated the racist notion of CRT and every student is afforded the same education if they choose to take advantage of it. Perpetual victimism is a chronic disease.

  • There is nothing productive for East Gainesville children to do. The city council so nasty closes down SE boys and girls club then wanted to put their homeless people a shelter there. It’s enough negativity going on without them adding to the situation.

    • Nothing productive? It’s football season, in my younger days we would play flag football. Why can’t they make flag football teams instead of gangs? It’s not someone else’s job to find something to keep someone else’s child occupied. Some churches and civic groups could be more influential but that would require people to be receptive and given recent occurrences, that’s not happening. Saying there isn’t anything “productive for East Gainesville children to do” is an excuse or just the acceptance of the behaviors.
      Hate to break the bad news but that’s no excuse to be counterproductive and/or destructive.

  • Home coming last year me and my son (who worked every day) was coming back from a event and stopped at the store to get snacks before going home. As I went into the store my son stood out by the car to smoke a cigarette. This guy was up to NO GOOD and started shooting..He was hot 5 times and went to the ground..All he had on him was his cigarettes. He was on LIFE SUPPORT 8 days, in the hospital 38 days, and it took him 8 months to learn to walk, his main nerve in is leg is damaged for life and he has no feeling from his knee down, he has to ware a brace to pull his leg up for every step. The guy who did it run and so far no arrest..thos is the world we live in. People wonder why we can’t get alone..its cause when your doing nothing and someone shots you and damages your body for no reason..then how do you shake the hand of the person who did it…Sad thing is you got drug addicts, on social security but a working person gets damage due to someone else the social security office don’t want to help. How nice..I guess being a drug addicted will get you social security…anyways the action of the shooter put alot of stress and financial burden on my son and the parents cause we had to fork out the money.

  • Not only am I suddenly hearing Elvis performing “In the Ghetto”, I hear a song by Queen as well.

    • We know two things; they’re still investigating, (doesn’t appear they’ve identified the shooter), and one person is dead. Sorry, couple other things; where the shooting occurred, where the victim was shot and where the victim was transported.

    • You are actually on the right track. The man who got shot was severely beating a woman half his size. Unclear who fired the bullet. If I was to guess he was trying to shoot her and during the struggle got shot.

  • Much less to do now than then. Plus cliché quote every commercial service is banking while ma andnpa are lowering the cost for the communities they serve and yard workers band daycares and maids are takingba beating

  • I too would like to know more information.

    Here’s what I do know. The man who got shot was beating and dragging a small woman half his size down the street. He repeatedly knocked her down, and struck her, all while dragging her down the street and across Waldo Rd. Shortly after making it to the homeless camp a gun went off and the attacker got shot in the head.

  • Man I’m just going to say this fighting prostitution drugs family don’t mix especially when you homeless…

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