Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Aaron James McRae, Jr., 20, has been charged with armed robbery and tampering with evidence in connection with a June 29 shooting at Madison Cove Apartments. 18-year-old Makhai Carter was previously arrested and charged with five felonies in the same case, including aggravated assault with a deadly weapon.
At about 4 a.m. on June 29, Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to reports of shots fired at Madison Cove Apartments (5500 SW Archer Road). Deputies found ten .40 caliber shell casings in front of building I and several bullet holes in the walls and doors of one apartment in that building. Several bullets reportedly traveled through the door and hit walls and other objects inside the apartment.
Deputies learned that there had been a small party in a nearby apartment, and witnesses said there had been some sort of disturbance inside the apartment.
Through follow-up interviews with people at the party, a deputy located one of the victims, who reportedly said Carter and a juvenile came to the apartment with guns, locked the front door, demanded that the victim give them money, and took a gun from his friend.