Crime & Safety
20-Year-Old Killed In Pinellas Park Shooting
Pinellas Park Police are investigating the homicide of a 20-year-old man in the parking lot of the Bell Apartments, 4030 78th Ave.
PINELLAS PARK, FL -- Pinellas Park Police are investigating the homicide of a 20-year-old man in the parking lot of the Bell Apartments, 4030 78th Ave., Pinellas Park, Friday, July 27, around 7 p.m.
According to police, Maurice A. Cole of Colorado Springs. Colorado, was in the parking lot of the apartment complex where his girlfriend lives, talking to another person when he was shot and killed.
The shooter fled the scene. Investigators do not believe the shooting was random.
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Cole was transported to Northside Hospital where he later died.
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