DAVENPORT, Fla. — The Polk County Sheriff's Office said 20-year-old Sedrick Myers and 18-year-old Cory Bowland Jr. turned themselves in to deputies Monday at the county's central booking facility in Bartow.
The previous story is below.
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Polk County homicide detectives have obtained arrest warrants for first-degree murder, armed robbery, and tampering with evidence for 20-year-old Sedrick Myers, and 18-year-old Cory Bowland, Jr., in the murder of 22-year-old Deonta Bugg of Haines City.
The men are considered to be armed and dangerous.
According to the Polk County Sheriffs Office, a witness and evidence showed Bugg was renting a room at a Days Inn motel in Davenport where he was selling marijuana. The witness told detectives that Bugg was meeting someone he talked with on Snapchat.
Bugg went outside to talk with two individuals in an older model white Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck before returning with a "bad feeling" he was going to be robbed, according to a release.
According to the witness, he watched Bugg head back to the parking lot and talk with those in the pickup truck before a shot was fired from inside.
The truck's tag was run and determined to belong to a Lake Hamilton resident. Detectives talked with the registered owner of the truck, who told them that Bowland borrowed the truck that day.
Further investigation showed Myers pulled the trigger during the transaction after getting picked up by Bowland, deputies say.
Now the sheriff's office is searching for the two men.
Anyone with information on these suspects' whereabouts is asked to contact Heartland Crime Stoppers - call 1-800-226 TIPS (8477).
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