LAKE CITY, Fla. — New details have emerged on the deadly Lake City shooting involving two 17-year-old boys.
One of them is injured and the other is dead.
The community is on edge as police are still searching for the person or persons who shot two teens and killed one.
The shooting took place Tuesday at the intersection of Lochlynn Terrace and SE Putnam St.
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The Columbia County Sheriff’s office says Dionne Leslie died of his injuries and the other teen is expected to survive.
“He was a Good Child he was working be was being productive,” Emma Thomas said of Leslie.
Thomas’ grandson volunteered with Leslie for the United States Young Marines, a youth leadership program.
“He was a good youngin’; didn’t matter that he was Black and we were white, it didn’t matter,” Thomas explained.
Patrice Whitehead also knew Leslie.
She works as the director of Happy Hearts daycare, which is just across the street from where police say the shooting happened.
“You can’t even make somebody upset anymore Back when we were little you just fist-fight it out, now they shoot it out,” Whitehead said.
Whitehead tells Action News Jax the daycare went under lockdown with 32 kids inside.
Whitehead says Leslie played basketball with her kids when they were growing up.
“I live right around the corner and my kids played with these kids. It’s just scary that that’s what this world has come to now,” Whitehead said.
The Columbia County Sheriff’s office says an ATV was spotted in the area at the time of the shooting.
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The sheriff’s office says it is still investigating whether the shooting was gang related.
Meanwhile, Whitehead and Thomas are still reeling.
“He wanted to be something,” Thomas added.
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