LAND O' LAKES, Fla — One man was taken to the hospital after being beaten with a gun and then shot in Land O' Lakes, the Pasco County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
Deputies say Wednesday afternoon two men who knew each other started to argue in a parking lot of a business near the 1800 block of Collier Parkway. The argument escalated into a fight and one man was hit in the head repeatedly with a gun before he was ultimately shot, the sheriff's office reports.
First responders arrived and found the man at the intersection of U.S. 41 and County Line Road — 2 miles away from where the fight took place. He was transported to a nearby hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
The sheriff's office said this is an isolated incident and doesn't believe there is a threat to the public since the two men knew each other.