Staff report

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Terrell Nicholos Weeks, 18, was arrested last night and charged with possession of a firearm by a delinquent during a drive-by shooting in Linton Oaks in March 2023, when he was 17. He is on probation on the same charge, related to a May 2023 incident.

At about 2:42 p.m. on March 12, 2023, Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to calls about a drive-by shooting in the 600 block of SW 63rd Terrace. Nobody was injured in the incident, but at least two cars were damaged. Ten spent shells from two different guns were reportedly collected by deputies.

Surveillance video showed a black Nissan Altima, and deputies identified the juvenile driver and a juvenile passenger (Makeal Blair, later charged as an adult), both of whom had previously interacted with deputies and who reportedly made social media videos in which they displayed firearms. A search warrant for Blair’s social media account reportedly produced a video from the night of the drive-by shooting; the video showed four people in the back seat of the car.

Formal adult charges in the incident were also recently filed against Makeal Jarrad Blair, 17, the passenger, and Robert Lavelle Green, Jr., 18, the alleged shooter, for shooting from a vehicle and possession of a firearm. Blair was released on $30,000 bail; Green was recently charged with resisting arrest after a drive-by shooting at Sweetwater Square Apartments and was released on $2,000 bail.

In the Linton Oaks incident, Green reportedly sat in the rear passenger seat by the window, and Weeks reportedly sat next to him, in the center. Videos reportedly show Green hanging out the window. Blair also allegedly fired a gun during the incident, and a witness said all the rear seat passengers had firearms, including Weeks.

Weeks has juvenile criminal convictions between 2020 and 2022 and is on probation for possession of a firearm by an adjudicated delinquent. He also has three misdemeanor convictions (none violent) and a pending misdemeanor sworn complaint that has not been filed.

Judge Susan Miller-Jones ordered Weeks held without bail for violating probation and set bail at $50,000 on the new charge.