Another Oneco Shooting Injures Man

A second shooting in the Oneco area this week injured a 21-year-old man Friday night.

The victim, Dashon McCray, told the Manatee County Sheriff's Office that he walked east on 57th Avenue near 12th Street around 9:30 p.m. Friday when an unknown person approached him and engaged in physical confrontation, according to the sheriff's office.

The perpetrator shot the victim in the knee and fled, and the victim was picked up by a passerby and brought to Manatee Memorial Hospital, according to the sheriff's office.

Manatee Memorial emergency room called the sheriff's office to report the shooting, and the sheriff's office has not record of the victim calling 911 on his own.

The sheriff's office is continuing its investigation.

On Tuesday, a shooting at 8th Street Court East left a bullet hole in a car window, just 1/2 mile west from Friday night's shooting, and that suspect had fled from authorities later that day and was captured and charged after he crashed his car on the Desoto Bridge. It is not clear whether the incidents are related.