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UPDATED: Man shot and killed in Lincoln Estates Sunday evening

March 17, 2024

Updated at 8:40 a.m. on March 18 with more information from GPD.

Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville Police Department is investigating a shooting on Sunday night in the Lincoln Estates neighborhood.

Officers responded to a call about a shooting in the 1300 block of SE 17th Drive at about 9:17 p.m. and found a man with a gunshot wound to the chest; first aid was rendered, and the man was transported to a local hospital, where he succumbed to his injury. The suspect is still at large.

  • Lincoln Estates, you don’t say? How surprising. Just wait until the city reappropriates another $5,000,000 or so for that cultural arts center in East Gainesville, that’ll certainly solve this problem.

      • Thanks for playing. Angry Bird is only speaking the truth about the demise of east Gainesville.

      • Sounds like you’re someone who don’t like to hear the truth he was totally right in what he said sorry your little feelings are hurt

    • Sure Angry, let’s punish everyone in town, law abiding and hard working majorities, for the actions of an idiot or two.

  • Follow-up on an unpaid business account. Live by the gun…you die by the gun.

  • Lincoln ‘Estates’. I wonder when they have an ‘estate’ sale there how many of the items are stolen?

    • Are guns and ammo part of the estate sale? On second thought, that must be only during gun ‘buy back’ times at GPD. Totally off the grid, think of a ‘food truck’ type vehicle used soley to troll the streets of Gainesville for gun buy back. It would play the sounds of weapons firing through the loudspeaker, signalling those with unwanted firearms to come outside and sell back their weapons to the truck. How convenient!

      • After 75+ years of being in the same family I would hope so. That is unless the current residents treat it like a cash cow and have multiple refinancings, then go buy the latest cell phones, rims, and Louis Vuitton.

  • Until we start to have accountability and policing our own communities things will only get worse. This has been the second shooting in which was once a premier location for the black populace in Gainesville. These choices from are young brothers stem from the absence of Love, Emotional Discipline, and Positive Guidance throughout life. I’ve always said it doesn’t matter where you come from, ”once you change your mind, you can the change the world”. Unfortunately, it’s going to take for the older and wiser men in the community to take back control of our neighborhoods and stop letting the young males run rampant through our streets. While being easier said than done, this seems to be our best and possibly only avenue to regentrify our neighborhoods.

    • Thank you for your wisdom and insight. Do you think that tougher sentencing would do anything to help stem the growth of violent crime? It sure seems like the consequences don’t fit the crime more and more these days. If these young men were facing a life of manual labor in prison, maybe they would think twice before adopting the thug lifestyle? I’d love to hear your thoughts on this!

      • The more ppl we lock up, the more of our tax dollars are going towards their incarceration. These youth don’t care about jail/ prison until they’re locked up and even then they get released and its back to the same cycle of life that hung them into this system in the first place. From my experience, these guys need something to live for, they’re living with their only purpose being to survive, that’s all most of them know. This generation of youth have been desensitized to violence and most lack empathy. Its sad when you have “kids” from the neighborhood that can tote a glock but cant make the A&B honor roll and this is where parenting and peer influence hold the most accountability. It takes a village to raise a child but it also takes a village to save the village. I believe that more preventative programs for these youth starting at early childhood and more active unification in our communities would be a great long term solution for the madness.

        • Last 5 killings was graduates some went to college it’s the whole alachua county out of control smoke shops on every corner they can get fake medical marijuana cards right there in that plaza by Aquinn Jones these teens getting high this synthetic drug is out there k2 Molly Mop Ice is messing up these young people got the killing each other they parents and grandparents we all got to stop the madness and shut down these smoke shops and pick up the sellers and the users give them a prison sentence not a slap on the hand

        • I have repeatedly said that mentoring programs should start in elementary school before kids get caught up in a destructive way of life. I would like to think that with the abundance of churches and college students that it wouldn’t be difficult to implement. The chamber of commerce in a town in NY had a mentoring program for fifth to eighth graders. My son was involved with it and they were seeing great results with these at risk students. Seemed that most of them just needed to see and feel like someone cared about them.

        • All true Kenneth but you left unmentioned the fact that jail is finishing school for too many young criminals and sometimes homecoming. Bad enough that rap romanticizes gang culture and provides a soundtrack, and drugs provide a trade, but the ease of getting a gun for cheap makes it all much more lethal. A teenager on a bike with a pistol? That absurd idea is too real.

    • Thank you Kenneth, for the only sound comment so far. I second that.

    • I totally agree with your. Kenneth hill, is saying here while taking time to point fingers being rude making these tragic situations a black and white, rich then blame less fortunate (poor) then whom all think you such ways are very small minded. Rich, poor, black & white children, neighborhoods, uptown downtown heck midtown’s all suffer the same type of situations name a city that doesn’t say but true, adults leaders parents and believers let’s be more in tuned more interactive listeners, get outside in our neighborhoods pure love concern attention and continue to believe in adolescents we as examples respect One another forgive what we can go an change build a fortress army of care and Love take back for the Love

    • Criminals don’t obey laws. If a person feels as though there is a need for them to carry a firearm, then a ban will not deter them from doing such. Yes, harsher penalties for those caught in violent acts can possibly help, there are better preventative measures that can be taken that would produce a more beneficial outcome for the ppl involved in this chaos.

      • There is no evidence to support your statement that “harsher penalties for those caught in violent acts can possibly help…” Recidivism rates are over 70% for people convicted of crimes. I am not suggesting that we don’t punish people for their illegal actions, but we need to get away from the falsehood that punishment is a deterrent, it isn’t. We need to return to the days of community policing. Engage the community, give them a reason to trust that the people patrolling the neighborhood actually care about the neighborhood and the people in it. The issues will not be fixed overnight and there will be resistance, but preventative measures are much better than reactive responses.

        • “Community Policing” and its hug-a-thug mentality is what led us to the boat we’re in now. Former Chief Jones and now former Chief Scott both espoused the mentality that coddling teenaged gang members and handing out free food in east Gainesville was going to win over the community. Needless to say it has not. Until these “misguided youth” learn how to hehave in a civilized society, incarceration is the only safe bet.

          • In total agreement. The old school mentoring doesn’t work, officer friendly doesn’t work, pool passes do not work. And Chief Tony’s crap has never worked. Incarceration is seemingly the only option now.

        • Incarceration may not be a deterrent, but it shortens the amount of their lifetime that they are free to a) commit more crimes tying up our expensive justice system, b) harm more innocent people and c) create more fatherless, poverty stricken dependents that will require social services.

          • All I see in the comments section are people saying “lock ’em up for life” almost as if every crime should be punishable by life in prison.
            You talk about how expensive the justice system is, but you’re in favor of adding to the expense by incarcerating more people for longer periods of time.
            My whole point is that if you embolden communities to trust the local law enforcement officers, you will likely see a decrease in crime because people won’t be as scared to “snitch.” The best way to do this is to have substations in high crime areas. Law enforcement should focus on the kids, do back to school drives, ride along programs, etc… Several people on this thread will say this is a waste of time and money and maybe they’re right, but to those people I would ask for solutions not just arguments. Incarceration is not always the answer to the problem. Sometimes we need to invest in long term solutions that require hard work and difficult decisions.

          • Harsher penalties prevent 1 person from committing more crimes. If incarceration were truly a deterrent you would see an immediate reduction in crime because other people would be deterred from committing crimes. Preventative measures are our best asset against crime.

      • Law enforcement is not doing the job enforcing the law it’s the whole alachua county is out of control allowing this. intelligent young men gone for no reason a real serious sad situation

      • Kenneth, you are leaving out the fact that guns are very easy to get and very cheap. That’s why we have teenagers on bikes packing heat. Sure criminals will not follow the law on owning one illegally, but they can get one easily and will. It’s like leaving you door wide open and wondering why things keep missing.

        They are easy to get because we don’t have strong national laws on ownership – which Americans overwhelmingly favor – and they are cheap because Americans own a ridiculously high number of them and don’t properly secure them. It’s called supply and demand. This is not rocket science. No other developed country has this problem, not even close. 2+2=4 Always has been, always will be.

  • I wonder how many gangsters are in G-ville. It’s crime prevention on the Eastside. Let’em live and die by the gun till they kill each other off till it ends.

  • It’s crime all over town not just east Gainesville its working and retired people with homes paid while yall running your dam mouth if you hate here leave nobody begging yall stay

    • Right they acting like it’s ain’t crime and gangs all over the city it’s been like tht it’s even crime where yall live at this city been like tht it’s just like any normal city and yall think yall finna roll in with yall money and get to change it and think yall can call shots. That’s funny

  • Do you really wanna know what destroyed the Black communities? The welfare era,Hip Hop,and Gangsta rap music! All they rap about is selling drugs,and disrespecting our black women. The government offered black women welfare and it took the fathers out of the household. Welfare assistance went up and the black men unemployment rate went up. The government issues food assistance,free medical care until there 18yrs. Without a Male figure in the house it’s no structure,few kids make.its. higher precntange go to FDOC! Then it’s a revolving door. They go to prison meet other criminals/Gang members get street smarter and on from there! Single poor women having babies from guys inland out of prison that dont respect women,or themselves. It’s a cycle that has to be broken or the black community will be Done for!

  • Was the gun stolen, too? Please obey laws, everybody. Then we wouldn’t need LEGAL self-defense.

  • So much negativity. Crime happens in the CITY period. It’s very easy to bash the lesser. However, it’s on the greater side as well. The crime the University keeps under wraps is ridiculous. Oh, what about Haile? It’s the entire CITY! If East Gainesville had hush money like the SW, NW you wouldn’t know. If your going to speak on crime let’s include the WHOLE CITY!

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