GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Gainesville Police Division investigators are nonetheless working to unravel the Easter Sunday taking pictures at TB McPherson Park that led to the loss of life of a 20-year-old girl who was caught within the crossfire.
Gainesville Police Chief Nelson Moya lately launched a video displaying surveillance clips of the taking pictures incident and asking for the general public’s assist in the investigation into the loss of life of 20-year-old Ontaria Baisden.
“We wish to deliver consideration to a case that we’re working that’s of excessive precedence to our group and to our group,” Moya says within the video. “Ms. Baisden was clearly caught in a crossfire. It’s of significance that we determine and produce to justice these answerable for her tragic passing.
The taking pictures was reported round 8:15 p.m. on April 20 as attendees have been leaving an Easter occasion.
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Video shows an unidentified male carrying crimson shorts and a grey hoodie opening hearth into the group. Moya can also be asking for assist to ID him, together with a second particular person seen working away from the taking pictures scene on the identical digicam angle.
Three individuals needed to be taken to the hospital after the taking pictures, together with Baisden, who later died from her accidents.
The particular person within the crimson shorts and grey hoodie will be seen working southeast on Southeast fifteenth Avenue, and Moya is asking anybody who is aware of the place that particular person went after the taking pictures to return ahead.
“That will be very useful to us,” Moya says within the video enchantment.
Within the video, Moya factors out the course the shooter had been aiming, which is off digicam.
“It can be crucial for us to determine everybody that was standing close to that space that’s not seen on this digicam’s angle,” Moya stated.
If you realize the place they went or what vehicles they have been driving after the incident, or who the particular person within the crimson shorts was chatting with earlier than the incident, you’re requested to name GPD Detective Matt Quinn at 352-339-0506 or the GPD tip line at 352-393-7700.
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