UPDATE: Arrest made in shooting at Ocala park

The Ocala Police Department investigated a shooting in city park parking lot on the evening of Oct. 5 and two people were arrested. [Photo by Andy Fillmore]

UPDATE: The Ocala Police Department has announced the arrest of a teenager in connection with the shooting with injuries that happened Oct. 5 in a parking lot of a city park where a youth league football game was set to be played.

Ewonye Jyiell Pinkney, 18, was charged with aggravated battery with a firearm, public firearm discharge from a vehicle, possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent and carrying a concealed firearm, according to a post on the OPD Facebook page.

According to Marion County Jail online records, Pinkney, who has a Dunnellon address, was booked on Oct. 7 with no bond amount indicated.

According to the Facebook post, OPD officers responded to a parking lot at Jervey Gantt Park at 2200 S.E. 36th Ave. Saturday after a shooting was reported. Officers found a man with non-life-threatening injuries to his leg, according to the Facebook post.

OPD detective Grosso found that Pinkney was riding in a vehicle with a 19-year-old
when he “fired several shots toward a known subject” but an innocent bystander was struck, the Facebook post stated.

ORIGINAL POST: A man was shot and injured in a parking lot the evening of Oct. 5 at Jervey Gantt Park, the Ocala Police Department reports. The shooting occurred in the parking lot “during a youth football game. One adult male victim was taken to the hospital with a non-life-threatening gunshot wound,” OPD stated.

The call for service, referencing a shooting at 2200 SE 36th Ave., was received at 7:20 p.m. according to OPD online records.

OPD Public Information Officer Jeffrey Walzack called the location secure and “no danger to the community” after 8:30 p.m. Police vehicles still ringed the perimeter of a parking lot in the city park just west of Southeast 36th after 9 p.m.

No arrests were announced and Walczak said police were conducting interviews Saturday night and additional details would follow.

If anyone has information that may help detectives in their investigation, call OPD at (352) 369-7000 or call Crime Stoppers of Marion County anonymously by dialing (352) 368-STOP (7867) or **TIPS. Tips can also be submitted online at OcalaCrimeStoppers.com. If you use Crime Stoppers and your tip leads to an arrest, you may be eligible for a cash reward of up to $3,000.