Shalamar Deshawn Moore, a 29-year-old Black man from Bartow, Florida, died after being shot on October 17, 2022. He was transported to Bartow Regional Medical Center, where he was pronounced deceased. The shooting happened around 3:00 PM after a report of an injured person near U.S. Highway 17 South and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard; investigators determined the shooting itself occurred on 9th Street in Bartow while Moore was inside a vehicle.

Authorities identified Devante Lamar Lawson, born October 14, 1997, as the suspect; Lawson turned himself in the evening of October 17. The arrest affidavit says the incident began when Angela Latrice Box contacted Lawson to help locate a vehicle Moore had taken after a physical altercation. Lawson and Box located the vehicle on 9th Avenue South, a confrontation followed, Moore refused to return the keys, and Lawson shot him. Moore was a member of the Open Door Ministry of Bartow and is survived by his parents, Frank Reed and Pearline Joseph, his daughter, siblings and extended family.

Does anyone have information about the events on 9th Street or the interaction that led to the shooting?