Multiple Shots Fired on Busy Leesburg Road Friday Night, Mount Dora Man Behind Bars

LEESBURG, Florida—A Mount Dora man is facing a litany of charges after he was accused of shooting at a vehicle on North Boulevard Friday night.

Leesburg Police received a complaint about a burgundy Ford Expedition driving recklessly in the area of Citizens Boulevard and North Boulevard at 8:21 p.m. Friday. The complainant provided dispatch with updated locations and about two minutes into the call the complainant said they heard what sounded like four to five gunshots, according to an arrest affidavit. The SUV then pulled into a business on U.S. Highway 441.

One minute later, a second complainant reported the SUV shot at his vehicle on West North Boulevard. The caller described the driver as a white male with tattoos. The caller told dispatch he returned fire at the SUV and pulled over on Mills Street; he stated he was standing by his vehicle with his unloaded firearm on the dash, the affidavit states. After officers arrived, he told them the SUV was driving recklessly and he slowed down to allow it to pass, once the vehicles were even, Gonzalez opened fire and the victim returned fire and immediately pulled over and called 9-1-1.

LPD located the SUV at a business on U.S. Highway 441 and found Adrian Omar Gonzalez, who has multiple tattoos, shirtless, in the driver’s seat with the door wide open. The arresting officer saw a bullet hole through the windshield and asked Gonzalez to explain the damage. Gonzalez said he was driving eastbound on North Boulevard when a white male began to shoot at him.

Gonzalez, who smelled of alcohol, and had watery bloodshot eyes, told the officer he did not know why the man shot at him and denied it was a road rage incident. Gonzalez also denied having a gun. Police inspected the SUV and found two additional bullet holes, a shattered window and a flat tire. Police searched the SUV and found a loaded FNX FN .40 caliber handgun, a Bulldog brand handgun, multiple loose rounds, a loaded magazine, cocaine, marijuana and a digital scale. Gonzalez refused to submit to field sobriety exercises.

Gonzalez, 29, was taken into custody and arrested for two counts of aggravated assault, shooting a deadly missile into a vehicle, discharging a firearm from a vehicle within 1,000 feet of a person, possessing a firearm by a convicted felon, discharging a firearm under the influence, DUI, possession of cocaine, possession of marijuana, possession of drug paraphernalia and driving on a suspended license. He is being held in the Lake County Jail on $61,500 bond.

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