NEWS
RELEASE
For Immediate Release
December 22, 2005
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
SHOOTING
ARREST
A
Fort Walton Beach
man is charged with aggravated battery with a firearm following a shooting
Thursday morning at
220 Cypress Street
. Investigators with the Okaloosa County
Sheriff
's Office say 27 year old Wallace L. Morris, Jr (pictured right), shot 23-year old Tremaine
Douglas Knox (pictured left) in the lower right leg during a drug-related argument. The two men
were apparently struggling over the weapon when Knox was shot. Deputy David
Bowell spotted Morris in a car near the intersection of
Hollywood Boulevard
and
Windham Avenue
approximately ten minutes after the shooting. Morris was taken into custody
without incident. A 45 caliber handgun was recovered from the suspects
apartment off
Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
. Knox was taken to
Fort Walton Beach
Medical
Center
for treatment.
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