On the afternoon of December 2, 2025, 20-year-old Jayvyn Levon McFadden was shot and later died at Lake Wales AdventHealth. Officers responded around 1:13 p.m. to the area near South Ninth Street and Columbia Avenue after reports of a shooting and found McFadden on the north side of a residence with multiple gunshot wounds. He was transported to the hospital and pronounced dead at 2:05 p.m.

Witnesses said McFadden had handed his young child to another person and started walking west on Columbia Avenue shortly before shots were fired. Bystanders reported a blue Chevrolet Cruze leaving the scene heading north. Investigators describe the incident as stemming from an ongoing dispute between two groups who knew each other and whose tensions had escalated.

Nineteen-year-old Miles Edward Brown of Frostproof voluntarily surrendered to the Lake Wales Police Department. He admitted to the shooting during an interview but gave statements investigators called consistently untruthful; evidence and witnesses indicated he had been circling the block looking for the victim. Brown was arrested and charged with second-degree murder and tampering with evidence.

Did anyone in the area see the blue Chevrolet Cruze or the events leading up to the shooting?