Newly released 911 calls offer insight into the chaos after a man was shot and killed in Sanford.Police say Saturday night, around 9:30, 22-year-old Brandon Leo had pulled into the driveway of a home on West Third Street in Sanford. He intended to sell a pair of headphones in a transaction he arranged online, but it ended with shots fired after two people approached his pickup.The 911 dispatcher asks the caller if they need police, fire or medical.”Probably both, sir, there have been gunshots fired,” the caller said. One call, then another. “It’s a shootout, it’s a shootout in front of my house,” another caller said, adding that they thought six or seven shots had been fired.After the shots, the pickup backed out of the driveway of the vacant home, across a yard, through a fence and into the water.”Heard shots and looked out the window, and it looks like they’re over at the retention pond,” a 911 caller said.According to reports, Leo was shot in the head. Officials want to remind people that online sales carry some risk. “When you’re making these online transactions, you don’t know who’s on the other side of that computer, and you don’t really know their intentions,” Bianca Gillett with the Sanford Police Department said.Most police and sheriff’s office headquarter buildings have designated areas to more safely complete sales arranged online.
SANFORD, Fla. —
Newly released 911 calls offer insight into the chaos after a man was shot and killed in Sanford.
Police say Saturday night, around 9:30, 22-year-old Brandon Leo had pulled into the driveway of a home on West Third Street in Sanford. He intended to sell a pair of headphones in a transaction he arranged online, but it ended with shots fired after two people approached his pickup.
The 911 dispatcher asks the caller if they need police, fire or medical.
“Probably both, sir, there have been gunshots fired,” the caller said.
One call, then another.
“It’s a shootout, it’s a shootout in front of my house,” another caller said, adding that they thought six or seven shots had been fired.
After the shots, the pickup backed out of the driveway of the vacant home, across a yard, through a fence and into the water.
“Heard shots and looked out the window, and it looks like they’re over at the retention pond,” a 911 caller said.
According to reports, Leo was shot in the head.
Officials want to remind people that online sales carry some risk.
“When you’re making these online transactions, you don’t know who’s on the other side of that computer, and you don’t really know their intentions,” Bianca Gillett with the Sanford Police Department said.
Most police and sheriff’s office headquarter buildings have designated areas to more safely complete sales arranged online.
