Plant City Police investigate homicide after 14-year-old dies from upper body trauma at hospital

PLANT CITY, Fla. - A 14-year-old boy is dead and another teen is still in the hospital in an apparent shooting in Plant City.

The incident happened in the area of House Street and Lakewood Avenue early Thursday morning which is very close to the Strawberry Festival.

Plant City police say two teens were dropped off at the hospital with "upper body trauma" though people who live in the area of where the incident happened say they were heard gunshots and it's left them feeling uneasy.

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Dane McBee heard gunshots shortly after midnight on Thursday, and he later saw the street in front of his duplex blocked off by crime scene tape.

"It was like five rapid rounds like pow, pow, pow, pow," he said.

An employee at a nearby business says when she got to work in the morning, she saw the lawn riddled with yellow crime scene markers.

According to Plant City police, two teens, a 14-year-old boy and 18-year-old man were dropped off by someone or multiple people at South Florida Baptist Hospital where the 14-year-old later died.

"Just looking at it from my perspective, I can't imagine their families must be grief stricken and heart broken to have to deal with that-but that fuels us to look harder and bring this to justice," said Capt. Al Van Duyne, a spokesperson for the Plant City Police Department.

Police don't know the relationship between the two teens or why the incident happened at that intersection.

There's also no information to indicate this was gang-related at this time.

"I see people playing with their babies and stuff out here all of the time," said McBee. "It's not something easy to talk about. It's not good."

Police don't know the extent of the 18-year-old's injuries at this time.

They also add it's also too early in the investigation to say whether they're looking for a suspect yet.

They ask anyone with information to contact them at 813-757-9200. 

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