- November 1, 2024
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The Flagler County Sheriff's Office has released surveillance footage of an April 21 shooting at the BP Circle K convenience store on State Road 100 in Bunnell and is seeking the public's help to identify the shooter. The video shows people piling on the suspect in a fistfight before he pulls out a gun.
The footage is not continuous video, but a time-lapse progression of still frames, without audio. View them (adjusted to redact sections that appear to show one woman's exposed breast) below, or here.
As the video starts, about a dozen people are milling around in front of the convenience store. One man is sitting on his haunches beside a garbage can in front of the store; he remains there throughout the incident, even when almost everyone else flees or ducks behind cars.
The suspect, wearing a black T-shirt, dark pants, white hat and white shoes, walks out of the store in the first few seconds of the video and immediately becomes involved in a physical fight that appears to begin between several other people.
A man jumps at the suspect's back and gets an arm around his head. The suspect is pushed or falls to the ground, and several people pile on. A bystander, a woman, pulls out a cell phone and points it at the combatants, appearing to take a photo or video. A woman wearing a blue shirt watches, her arms crossed.
Suddenly, the several people who'd been on top of the suspect jump away as the suspect, his hat gone and a gun in his hand, rises. He points the firearm toward someone who is fleeing, largely out of the frame.
People scatter, except for the seated man and the blue-shirted woman, who walks away slowly, her arms still crossed.
The shooter advances with the gun until he's out of the frame. A man holding a child darts into the store as the shooter comes back into view briefly, before disappearing again.
People heard five to eight gunshots. One person was struck in the back and hospitalized. Witnesses also reported hearing gunshots shortly afterward at the corner of Court Street and South Moore Street, about a block south of the convenience store.
The Sheriff's Office has asked anyone with information to call the FCSO at 386-313-4911 or email [email protected], according to an FCSO news release. Crime Stoppers is offering a reward up to $5,000 for information leading to an arrest, and can be reached at 1-888-277-TIPS (8477), according to the news release.
