Texas Man Shot Walking Along Gulf Boulevard In St. Pete Beach

ST. PETE BEACH, FL - A Texas man was shot as he was walking near a St. Pete Beach hotel around midnight Saturday, deputies said. A caller later told police four people in a white Chevy Impala were driving in the area without headlights and the driver may have had a rifle.

The victim was identified as Kurt Alan Lang, 51, of Dallas. Lang suffered non-life-threatening injuries. After he was shot, he walked to the Beachcomber hotel at 6200 Gulf Blvd. and called 911.

Lang was walking with his cousin on the west side of Gulf Boulevard near the Beachcomber Beach Resort Hotel when he heard something that sounded like a firecracker. Lang grabbed his chest and soon realized he had been shot. His injury appeared to be consistent with a small caliber round.

Lang told deputies he saw a white vehicle driving at a normal speed at the time he was shot. Deputies responded to the caller about an hour later in the area of 6850 Beach Plaza in St. Pete Beach. The caller described the white Impala with a driver, either a Hispanic or white male, hanging out the window with a rifle, deputies said. The caller was not able to provide a detailed description of the suspect.

The caller spotted the car about an hour after Lang had been shot, deputies said. The caller said he saw the emergency vehicles and decided to make a late report to deputies.

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