KISSIMMEE, Fla. — Monday afternoon Kissimmee police said two suspects have been arrested and charged in a shooting at a busy Walmart parking lot.
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The shooting was captured on surveillance video (Watch the surveillance video). In the video you can see the victim taking off his shirt, then running away.
The victim, 18-year-old Samuel Wells of Kissimmee, is expected to recover after getting shot in the arm and in the leg. His grandmother said he will undergo surgery on Tuesday.
Witnesses said it was scary as bullets started flying through this parking lot. In the parking lot outside the Walmart a man pulled out a gun and opened fire.
"There was a bullet hole in the car, you can see it in the car in the back," witness Robert Fuentes said.
The surveillance video captured the gunman in action. He's one of two men in a small silver car. In the video the victim can be seen diving for cover as a spray of bullets flew through the crowded parking lot.
Ed Kimbell and Adrian Jacobs watched it happen.
"At the beginning it looked like he was going to take off his clothes and fight the guy, but out come the gun and then came the shots and the guy ran into the store," Jacobs said.
The victim was struck in the leg. Customers inside the Walmart scrambled for safety. The store was on lockdown for nearly three hours.
Kissimmee police say this started as a verbal argument inside the store between the victim and the two suspects. Witnesses say it then spilled into the parking lot, but before it could come to blows one of the suspects pulled out the gun.
"To be on top of it, to actually see it; it's like, oh my gosh," Robert Fuentes said.
The suspects drove off in a silver car.
Monday afternoon Kissimmee police said that a partial tag number led them to a vehicle registered to a female in Port Charlotte. Detectives contacted the Charlotte County Sheriff's Office and deputies there were able to detain two men who, investigators said, matched the description of the suspects involved in the shooting.
Townsend Allwood Side by Side 011711 Shawn Townsend and Marlan Allwood Investigators went to Port Charlotte and interviewed the two men. A witness identified the men as the two who were at the scene of the shooting.
Shawn Townsend, 23, has been charged with attempted felony murder. Marlan Allwood, 27, has been charged with principle to attempted first-degree murder. Both men are being held in the Charlotte County jail on no bond and will be extradited to Osceola County. Police say they aren't sure if the shooting was gang-related.