PUNTA GORDA — The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office released more details on a fatal shooting that left two dead on Trails End Drive last month.
Charlotte County Sheriff Bill Prummell confirmed at a news conference Thursday afternoon the identities of the two men who were shot — Mario Schiano and Anthony Galeotti — and said the shooting was being investigated as a homicide.
“From what we can tell, they were both targeted,” Prummell said at CCSO Headquarters on Utilities Road.
Both men may have been involved in the drug trade, he added, and leads in the case had drawn detectives outside of Florida.
The investigation is still ongoing, despite the fact that two suspects had been arrested and charged with criminal conspiracy.
Prummell stressed the investigation is ongoing and that detectives did not want to “tip (their) hands” as more evidence is gathered. As a result, CCSO has been careful to avoid making more public statements on the case.
He also said that if he believed there was a danger to the community, he would release information on the nature of that danger to the public.