Lee County Sheriff's Office deputies including K-9 officers, flooded the area around Three Oaks Community Park Thursday morning searching for a suspect in a fatal shooting.
The shooting shortly after 8 a.m. caused Three Oaks Parkway and the park to be closed for an investigation. The parkway reopened nearly 8 hours later.
More than a half-dozen units were inside and stationed outside the Timberwalk at Three Oaks gated community about a mile north of the park.
Witnesses reported shots fired and a wrecked car near the community park. Sheriff Carmine Marceno, in a press conference at the scene, said the shooting was a homicide and asked for information from any witnesses.
"We will not tolerate this behavior in Lee County," he said. "These acts of violence will not be tolerated." Marceno said the victim had been shot multiple times.
One deputy described the suspect being sought as a Black man wearing a hoodie and said he was wanted in connection with the shooting.
Deputies, some armed with automatic weapons, were seen along Roundstone Circle in the Timberwalk at Three Oaks community checking in and around the sixplex townhomes.
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