Gainesville Police are investigating an attempted homicide between a boyfriend and girlfriend that took place on Sunday.
Police responded to Palmetto Creek apartment complex, at 2114 NW 55th Blvd., at 9:50 p.m. after receiving calls about gunfire, GPD spokesperson Officer Ben Tobias wrote in an email. Police later found shell casings on the sidewalk in front of an apartment, Tobias said. No one was reportedly hit by the gunfire.
Police have not released the names of the couple.
Shortly after police arrived, a man called police from a BP gas station, located about three minutes away from the complex at 5310 NW 13th St., and said he had been shot, Tobias said.
At the gas station, police saw the man had not been shot. He would not cooperate with police and refused to give any information about a shooter, Tobias said.
Officers saw blood in the man’s car. Tobias said it may have been from a head injury the man received in a fight with his girlfriend. Tobias did not know the state of the injury because he said the man would not cooperate with police.
Police found the man’s girlfriend at her Palmetto Creek apartment, Tobias said. She also did not cooperate with police, he added.
There were 10 9-mm shell casings on the sidewalk directly in front of her apartment, Tobias said.
Neither the man nor his girlfriend face charges as of press time, Tobias said.
Contact Robert Lewis at rlewis@alligator.org. Follow him on Twitter at @Lewis__Robert.
