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Brevard Drive-By Shootings May Be Connected

Posted: 6:01 am EST November 11, 2009Updated: 6:54 pm EST November 11, 2009

It was a violent night on the streets of Brevard County Tuesday. Three people were shot in two separate cities just minutes apart. Two men were shot on Holmes Street in Cocoa and then another man was shot on Revilla Lane in Rockledge; the crime scenes are only a few blocks apart.

There were extra police officers on patrol in Rockledge Wednesday afternoon searching for the gunmen in two drive-by shootings.

Earnette Duhart was asleep at her home on Revilla Lane (see map) when she heard one loud gunshot at 11:30pm Tuesday.

“I heard something say, ‘Pow!’ and my grand baby was looking out the window and she was saying, ‘Grandma, grandma someone got shot!’” Duhart said.

Police found 19-year-old Felix Dozier in the middle of the street with a gunshot wound to his leg. The suspects sped off in a dark-colored vehicle.

“I kept hearing him say, ‘Oh!’ I kept hearing him holler,” Duhart described.

Investigators believe the suspects started their shooting spree in Cocoa, where two men were shot minutes before the teenager in Rockledge.

“I heard the gunfire and I hit the floor,” Cocoa shooting eyewitness Larry Collins said.

William Lennar, 51, and Steve Aikens, 25, were sitting in their rental car at the corner of Holmes Street and Kentucky Avenue (see map) when someone drove by wearing masks and fired off at least 15 gunshots. A bullet grazed one of the victims in the head, so he was airlifted to Holmes Regional Medical Center and both were shot in the hand a total of four times.

“I figured somebody got shot because it was a lot of gunfire,” Collins said.

One of the victims ran to a home on the corner for help.

Rockledge and Cocoa police need help, because they believe both drive-bys are connected and only have vague descriptions of the suspects and their vehicles.

All three shooting victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries and are expected to fully recover.

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