GPD: Teen arrested in connection with drive-by shooting

A Gainesville teenager was arrested Tuesday morning in connection to a drive-by shooting that occurred Friday night, Gainesville Police said.

Officers arrested Brooke Jenkins, 17, for driving the car used in the drive-by shooting at 1600 NE Eighth Ave. at about 10:39 p.m., according to a press release. Four people were shot as unknown suspects drove by on Northeast Eighth Avenue and shot at people on the sidewalk, Detective Jorge Campos, a GPD spokesperson, wrote in an email.

Of the four people shot, two were hit on their extremities, one was grazed by a bullet and another was shot in the abdomen. One victim remains hospitalized in stable condition, according to the release.

GPD detectives said the shooting was the result of a fight, started at a high school football game. The participants were removed from the football game and planned to meet where the shooting took place, according to the release.

After the shooting, police couldn’t locate the cars involved.

Three days after the first shooting, four victims were shot at in a Walmart parking lot, located blocks away from the first shooting at 1800 NE 12th Ave. Nobody was injured, according to the release.

Officers believe the shootings are related, and both are suspected to be tied to juvenile gang activity, according to the release.

GPD charged Jenkins with attempted homicide and took her to Alachua County Juvenile Detention Center, according to the release.

Detectives are trying to identify another vehicle involved in the shooting, which is described as a silver or gray four-door, mid-sized Volkswagen with black rims.

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