The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office is reporting that a double shooting in Florida, which was rumored to be connected to the George Zimmerman verdict, actually is not.
The gunman behind Sunday’s act of violence is still on the loose.
According to First Coast News:
The incident took place around 8:45 p.m. at the 7000 block of Normandy Blvd.
Two brothers 24-year-old Andrew Austin Bohannon and 19-year-old Matthew Ryan Bohannon, both in the same car, were approached by another car carrying multiple occupants.
The car with multiple occupants fired shots into the car carrying the two men.
One victim was pronounced dead on the scene and the other victim was transported to a local hospital where he was later pronounced dead.
Rumors that the shooting was in retaliation to a “Free Zimmerman” bumper sticker on the Bohannnon’s truck spread through Jacksonville earlier this week.
The social media rumors circulated so far that the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office released a statement Monday that reads:
“Normandy Blvd. Shooting Update – We have had numerous inquiries, blog comments, and Facebook postings about the relationship between the Normandy double homicide last night in the Golden Corral parking lot and the outcome of the George Zimmerman trial. We are confident to say where we are in the investigation that this is not the case at all. There is NO link at all between these cases, nor did we ever suspect one.”
Police are still trying to locate the shooter.
SOURCE: First Coast News
