Business Shot Up, Cops Need Help Catching Suspect

CLEARWATER, FL — The Clearwater Police Department is asking for help identifying the person responsible for shooting out the front windows of a local business over the weekend. According to the agency, its officers were notified about the shooting at GFS Private Wealth, 2475 Enterprise Road, Saturday afternoon when a man who lives nearby heard “loud popping sounds.”

When officers arrived on the scene, they discovered quite a mess. Police say six large plate-glass windows had been shot out. The damage is estimated at $4,000.

Surveillance images pulled from the business show a full-size, four-door Dodge pickup in the parking lot “with a lone suspect in the bed of the truck armed with a gun,” an email from police said. The weapon used was possibly a BB gun.

The truck had chrome door handles, black-and-silver custom wheels and tinted windows. The shooter, the agency said, had dark hair and may possibly be a juvenile.

Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Clearwater Police Department at 727-562-4242 or email tips@myclearwater.com. Tips may also be sent through Crime Stoppers of Pinellas County by calling 1-800-873-TIPS.

The case is being treated as felony criminal mischief, the agency noted in its Feb. 23 email.

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Photos courtesy of the Clearwater Police Department