Mount Dora Wal-Mart shooting: 'Somebody help, I've been shot'

Two people were shot in the parking lot of a Walmart in Mount Dora on Friday night.

A Wal-Mart employee told police that he saw a man run across the parking lot, according to an incident report, yelling "Somebody help me, I've been shot!"

A minute later, another person emerged from the black Honda saying the same thing, the employee told police, the report released Monday states. Mount Dora police also released a 911 call about the double shooting outside the Wal-Mart off U.S. Highway 441.


"There's a bunch of people and I'm afraid to go over there," a caller told the 911 dispatcher.

Police found one person shot in the back and another shot in the knee about 9:23 p.m. Both were airlifted to separate area hospitals for medical attention, Mount Dora police spokeswoman Lisa McDonald said.

The victims suffered non-life-threatening injuries, Officer Mike Garcia said.

The 911 caller said she heard a loud bang in the Wal-Mart parking lot and saw a man bend over afterward. When she pulled up to the scene she was still on the phone with the dispatcher.

"Someone's on the ground, someone's on the ground," she said.

Kendrick Dewayne Hunter, a friend of the two victims he identified to police as "Christian" and "Gabriel," said he was on the way over to the Honda when his friends emerged wounded.

The suspects fled the scene, but police are still investigating how many were involved in the incident, McDonald said. or 407-232-0202 or follow me on Twitter @BiancaJoanie;