NEWS RELEASE                                             

For Immediate Release
July 23, 2006
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
  (850) 651-7420

SHOOTING INVESTIGATION

     The Okaloosa County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a shooting that happened just before midnight Saturday. 25-year old Scott Anthony Bezzo of Navarre was shot once in the leg while on Cypress Street in the Sylvania Heights area of Fort Walton Beach .

     Bezzo told Okaloosa Sheriff’s investigators it happened after a brief altercation, but doesn’t know who fired the weapon. He was taken to Fort Walton Beach Medical Center for treatment. Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to contact the Okaloosa Sheriff’s Office Criminal Investigations Division at 609-2000 or Emerald Coast Crime Stoppers at 863-TIPS.

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