Walmart Shooting Suspect Arrested
Deputies say he shot a man in the face several times with a pellet gun outside the Lutz Walmart in what is being classified as a hate crime.
A 25-year-old Land O’ Lakes man is now in custody following a Wednesday morning shooting outside the Lutz Walmart. Pasco County deputies say the man harassed a couple outside the Land O’ Lakes Boulevard store around 3 a.m. Jan. 2. The incident, which is being classified as a hate crime by the sheriff’s office, unfolded as a man and his girlfriend were walking through the store’s parking lot. The suspect began harassing the couple because he believed the man was from the Middle East, a sheriff’s office report said. As the man and his girlfriend approached their car, the suspect came up to them and made racial slurs about the man being with a white woman, then shot the man in the face with a pellet gun in the cheek area at least twice, Pasco…
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