VIDEO: Riverview hotel shooting highlights dangers of gun violence
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RIVERVIEW, Fla. (WFLA) — New surveillance video from the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office captures the moments when a man opened fire in a Riverview hotel parking lot.

According to HCSO, the incident happened outside the Uptown Suites Extended Stay Hotel in.

In the video, 37-year-old Jasheed Scatliffe-Kalunda is seen running toward Cameron Williams’ car and firing shots.

According to investigators, his gun appeared to jam — but Scatliffe-Kalunda managed to fix it, then fired again before leaving the scene. Court records state he fired a total of nine shots at the car.

Court documents indicate a total of ten CBC 9mm Luger spent casings were found along with one live round.

Deputies later conducted a traffic stop at the Splash Car Wash and Lube located on the 800 block of Bloomingdale Avenue and saw he was sitting in the car with a woman seated in the passenger seat.

Scatliffe-Kalunda gave consent to deputies to search his vehicle. He admitted to being at the hotel that day, driving his car into the parking lot moments before the shooting, but denied involvement in the shooting. 

Detectives say they later found a gun at his apartment on the 9000 block of Tranquility Lake Circle and believe it was used during the incident.

Authorities also revealed that Scatliffe-Kalunda and Williams had been arguing throughout the week leading up to the shooting.

Community leaders such as Freddy Barton, executive director of Safe & Sound Hillsborough say incidents like this highlight the dangers firearms pose not only to those directly involved, but to bystanders as well.

“When we see these instances happen, the people that they’re shooting at aren’t necessarily the victims. We see unintended victims all the time because people just don’t understand what happens when you fire that firearm,” said Barton.“The first thing is to take a breath and just get away from that situation. You don’t have to necessarily pick up a firearm to handle it over something that is just meaningless.”

Safe & Sound Hillsborough is the violence prevention collaborative for Hillsborough County which Barton said takes a public health approach in reducing and preventing violence.

The non-profit organization partners with neighboring public agencies, court systems, and school districts to find ways to prevent gun violence from continuing, promote youth development and foster neighborhood collaboration.

Just days earlier, Hillsborough County Sheriff deputies responded to a Gibsonton neighborhood where surveillance video captured multiple shots fired outside a home in an alleged dispute involving a 22-year-old suspect.

Barton said both situations reveal one common issue:

“If you don’t have the coping skills, the anger management skills, don’t pick that thing up in response to something that really won’t even matter a year from now,” Barton explained. “Life is not a video game, you don’t respond if you lose your life, and you don’t come back. You don’t get extra lives. You only have one life to live so protect your life as well as protecting others.”

Scatliffe-Kalunda is being held at the Falkenburg Road Jail without bond and faces the following charges: aggravated battery with a deadly weapon, discharging a firearm in public or on residential property, shooting at a vehicle, and attempted murder in the first-degree, premeditated firearm discharge.

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