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STARKE— One man is hospitalized, and another is in jail after an argument involving four people in the parking lot of Lawtey’s Fast Track convenience store ended in gunfire.
Bradford Sheriff’s Col. Brad Smith said 19-year-old Blake Wyckoff and two of his friends continued a verbal dispute that started days earlier with 29-year-old Anthony Kulbacki.
While arguing in the parking lot, Wyckoff pulled out a 0.22-caliber handgun and fired six shots, hitting the 29-year-old victim several times in the chest and abdomen.
“We think alcohol may have been involved,” said Smith. “The argument involved some dispute about one of the individual’s family members.”
Smith said Wycoff is from Marion County but had been living in Lawtey. After the shooting, the gunman fled to his hometown, where Marion County deputies apprehended him.
Smith said the defendant’s two companions are cooperating with law enforcement and his agency has recovered the weapon used in the shooting.
The colonel added that according to the last update he received on the victim’s condition, Kulbacki’s injuries were not life-threatening.
