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Plant City police investigate man found dead, another shot in same area

 
Published July 3, 2016

PLANT CITY — Police are investigating a man found dead in the road Saturday night and another man who was shot in the same area, according to authorities.

The Plant City Police Department received a 911 call at 9:47 p.m. about a man who was down and bleeding from an injury on the 1600 block of East Warren Street. Officers went to the scene and found the man lying in the road dead with upper body trauma. Investigators did not elaborate on the nature of his injuries.

About 10 minutes later, the department took another 911 call from a man in the same area who said he was shot, officers said. Plant City paramedics took him to a local hospital with at least one wound to the abdomen.

Investigators did not release names or ages of the men.