On Christmas morning, December 25, 2025, a shooting in the 800 block of West Silver Springs Place in Ocala, Florida, left a 21-year-old man dead. Officers arrived about 4:11 a.m. and found the victim lying in the roadway with at least one gunshot wound. First responders and Ocala Fire Rescue performed life-saving measures, but the victim was pronounced deceased at the scene.

The deceased has been identified as JaNarre Suggs, an Ocala resident and recent first-time father. His family noted the loss compounded earlier grief: his cousin, David Nathaniel Barron, was killed almost exactly two years earlier in a high-profile shooting at the Paddock Mall. Detectives have classified this death as a homicide; no suspect or arrests had been announced in the days after the shooting, and no motive was released.

Who in Ocala remembers activity in the West Silver Springs Place area that morning or can share information that might help investigators?