Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Christian Alvin Perry, 25, and Mario Fidel Taylor, 25, have been arrested and charged with attempted homicide, aggravated battery, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, and firing a weapon on residential property for allegedly shooting a man and threatening to shoot a juvenile in Majestic Oaks on August 6, 2022.
At about 6:51 p.m. on August 6, 2022, Alachua County Sheriff’s Deputies responded to a report of multiple gunshots fired in the area of 5800 SW 20th Avenue, in Majestic Oaks.
A short time later, two people arrived at Alachua County Fire Rescue Station 80, and one of them was a man who had been shot in the leg. The second person, a juvenile, reported that the gunman had also threatened him.
Deputies located surveillance video that reportedly showed two subjects in Woodland Villas Apartments before the shooting, later identified as Perry and Taylor; two men dressed in the same clothes were also seen in Majestic Oaks video surveillance with shirts over their faces, and Perry was identified as the shooter. After the shooting, both subjects reportedly fled back to Woodland Villas.