NEWS RELEASE
For Immediate Release
February 17, 2009
Contact: Michele Nicholson
Public Information Officer
(850) 651-7420
OCSO
INVESTIGATES SHOOTING
The Okaloosa
County Sheriff's Office is investigating a shooting outside Consul Apartments at
120 NE Monahan Drive.
The victim,
41-year old Michael Lanier, says he had walked from his apartment to his truck
around 5:45 a.m. Tuesday morning when a man approached him and then shot
multiple times.
Lanier was
taken by medical helicopter to Sacred Heart Hospital in Pensacola.
No other
details are being released at this time.