DAVENPORT, Fla. — A shooting in Polk County may be connected to one that happened just minutes later in which a gunman killed a 17-year-old boy from Davenport, the sheriff's office said.
The teen's body was found just before 5 p.m. Thursday, July 21, just off the roadway near Jennings and Jack Watkins roads in Haines City, according to a Polk County Sheriff's Office news release.
But just 16 minutes earlier, the agency says a 17-year-old from Winter Haven was shot in the area of Lemon Street and Dundee Road — located about 8 miles away.
That teen survived his injuries, according to the sheriff's office.
Anyone with information about the shootings is asked to call the Polk County Sheriff's Office at 863-298-6200. Tips can be sent in anonymously — and people can be eligible for a reward — by calling Heartland Crime Stoppers at 863-226-TIPS.