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No Injuries After Shots Fired At UF Campus

Clay Allen Shanks, left, and Sara Elizabeth Gooden
Alachua County Jail
Clay Allen Shanks, left, and Sara Elizabeth Gooden

Two Gainesville residents face multiple charges following an argument that escalated into gunshots being fired outside a University of Florida dormitory.

University police Maj. Brad Barber told The Gainesville Sun an argument broke out as people were leaving a bar.

Barber says 25-year-old Clay Allen Shanks is accused of punching someone in the jaw before the two groups separated. He pulled a gun from a purse held by his 21-year-old girlfriend Sara Elizabeth Gooden and fired once into the ground of the Murphree Hall parking lot.

Gooden got into a car with her friend and was arrested a short time later. Shanks was arrested by Gainesville police.

They remain in the Alachua County Jail. It’s not known whether they’ve hired lawyers.

No one was injured in the shooting.

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