It was only a matter of time before a shooting would break out during Panama City, Florida’s annual spring break festivities.
A house party was shut down this past weekend after a 22-year-old opened fire, shooting and injuring seven. Police later arrested the man on seven counts of attempted murder.Local officials and police, who have warned that an increase of alcohol and illegal drug consumption by spring breakers, along with the criminal element that seems to come along with it, said that this kind of reckless behavior would eventually lead to an uptick in serious crimes being committed.
“This is what we’ve been trying to warn people about,” said Bay County Sheriff Frank McKeithen. “It was only a matter of time and it’s only a matter of time until it happens again if we don’t address it.”-Fox News
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While the Panama City city council held and emergency meeting over the weekend to fund additional police patrols, one councilman, Keith Curry, saw his efforts to ban alcohol on the beach and to limit the sale of alcohol to 12 am, “shot down” by the council.
Even the local sheriff expresses his concerns to the council last year and asked for the beach ban on alcohol, as well as asking for the last sale of alcohol to be moved up, but the council ignored his requests.“We have blood on our hands” Councilman Keith Curry
Curry said Sunday he realized they made a mistake as he went on patrols with police in recent weeks, saw the drug arrests for heroin and an increasingly popular club drug called Molly, as well as the number of guns that have been confiscated.
Could all of this crime lead to ‘No’ mas tequila on the beach during spring break in Panama City, Florida?