Law enforcement academy cadet helps Fort Pierce police find gun believed to have been used in fatal shooting
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 by Ana X. Ceron
Fort Pierce Police Chief Sean Baldwin shakes Mark Steele's hand after the academy cadet found the gun believed to have been used in Friday's fatal shooting.
FORT PIERCE — Mark Steele hasn’t even graduated from law enforcement academy and he has already possibly helped crack a big case.
Steele, 20, and 15 other cadets enrolled at Indian River State College were asked to find the gun used in a Friday night shooting that left a Fort Pierce man dead in what is thought to have been retaliation for his beating a woman earlier that evening.
The woman’s brother, Fort Pierce resident Jeremiah Minatee, 18, was arrested Sunday in connection with the shooting.
Minatee has denied the charges and police hadn’t been able to find a key piece of evidence: the gun. (more…)
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