UFPD investigating shot fired into window on Sorority Row
Press release from University of Florida Police Department
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The University of Florida Police Department (UFPD) is investigating an incident involving a shot fired in the early morning hours of Thursday.
On Thursday around 11:15 a.m., UFPD responded to a call from a resident of Sorority Row who reported a shot had been fired through a closed window, striking indoor window shutters. The caller reported the incident had just taken place.
As a result, UFPD and the Gainesville Police Department responded to the incident as an immediate and ongoing threat to campus.
Responding officers searching the area spoke with potential witnesses who reported not hearing the sound of a gunshot recently. Additionally, some residents of Sorority Row reported having heard a “pop” sometime between 1:30 a.m. and 2:30 a.m. on Thursday.
After securing the area and conducting an exhaustive search, officers determined there was a time delay between when the incident happened and when the bullet was found by the resident of the building. UFPD is not aware of any injuries to any persons stemming from this incident.
UFPD would like to thank its partners at the Gainesville Police Department for their assistance and response to this incident.
While there is no ongoing threat to campus, the investigation into this incident is ongoing. Additionally, UFPD has increased patrols in the area in response to this incident.
Anyone who believes they may have seen something or heard something is asked to call 352-392-1111.
Welcome to the world of reality where unfortunely crime really happens outside of the Utopia of UF and sometime spills over. It’s not like the boogie man is stalking Sororities. It was probably fired in a fit of rage a block away or from a vehicle shooting at another vehicle. Until the criminals are forced to move from apartments and duplexes surrounding UF it will continue.
Campus Walk apartments is a block from sorority row, literally. Flying bullets at night is just part of the fun of the diversification of da neighborhood.
Pretty soon they’ll have disGrace #2 on SW 13th Street – providing easy access to the campus area to make panhandling and harassing/threatening students easier than ever!
That neighborhood has been gentrified over the last several decades as Depot Rd west of 6th street used to be a slum, now filled in with apartments too expensive for anyone but UF students and with jogging coeds running up and down it.
I don’t think you put nearly enough vodka in your Bloody Mary this morning as that post didn’t make sense at all. It’s Depot Avenue, not Depot Road. And did you mean east of 6th Street instead of west? The neighborhood behind Norman Hall, known as University Heights, where AGH was, has always been student oriented. Campus Walk was called La Mancha, and it housed primarily international students, with no section-8 types. The Porters neighborhood, east of 6th Street, does have a few new student buildings, but it’s still predominantly the same as it’s always been. Campus Walk should be turned back into student housing, obviously. We need people with money living here, not more worthless dirtbags holding cardboard signs all day instead of working.
As I noted, west of 6th street on Depot Road (what we all call it). Given I regularly picked up a day laborer who worked for me there 20 years ago, I was and am now well aware of that neighborhood. You are correct that immediately east and north of Norman Hall and east of sorority road was a mostly solid neighborhood, but Depot was not safe and any coeds running down it were trying to escape something, not exercising as they are now.
I lived in that exact neighborhood for a long time, Jazzmin. It’s Sorority ROW, by the way. There is a park at the corner of 6th and Depot, and the adjacent complexes like Royal Village have been there since the 1990s. Before that, it was woods. Tumblin Creek Apartments have been there forever off of 9th Street across Depot. They tore down the ZBT house to build Oxford Terrace phase 2. It’s never been ghetto there until Campus Walk.
I don’t know what your point is supposed to be, anyway. It seems like you’re still having a nervous breakdown after the election.
You are right……you can add 34th street to the areas going to be degraded.
Did it originate from that Campus Walk section 8 island of misery rental condos owned by absentee landlords in their sorority midst, perhaps? They can’t sell them —except to bankruptcy lawyers, as planned.
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