Crime & Safety
Police Seek Help Identifying Car Involved In Latest Shooting
Monday's gunfire is the 10th shooting police have investigated since December.
CLEARWATER, FL — Clearwater police are hoping the public can help police make an arrest in the latest in a spate of fatal shootings that have plagued the beach community over the past several months.
Clearwater homicide detectives are asking for the public's help to locate a car that may have been involved in Monday night's shooting outside the Idle Spur Saloon, 1351 Cleveland St.
It is believed to be a silver four-door sedan.
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On Monday just before midnight, a man approached 23-year-old Da'Jon Dre' Shaud Tennell in the parking lot of the bar and shot him multiple times. He died about a half an hour later.
Investigators believe Tennell was the intended target of the shooting. A number of patrons from the bar were in the parking lot at the time.
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Detectives are asking anyone with information about the car or the shooting to contact the homicide unit at 727-562-4242.
The fatal shooting comes a little more than a week after two people were wounded during a shooting at the Diamond Dolls strip club in Clearwater, 16361 U.S. 19.
On Friday, May 7 at about 3 a.m., a mother, Melissa Bibb, 47, and her 23-year-old daughter, Tayler, sustained minor injuries when shots were fired at the club.
Detectives arrested Alycia Jazmyn Ruiz, 21, and charged her with aggravated battery with a deadly weapon after learning she'd gotten into an argument with Tayler Bibb at the club over Ruiz' current boyfriend and Bibb's former boyfriend, Anthony Bates, 30.
Bates was also arrested and charged with being a principle to aggravated battery.
Monday's gunfire is the 10th shooting police have investigated since December.
In an earlier interview, Clearwater Police Chief Dan Slaughter said the number of shootings that have occurred in the city in recent months is disturbing.
"The detectives and officers at the Clearwater Police Department have never been more committed to reducing violence in our community," Slaughter said.
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