Staff report
GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Robert Lavelle Green, Jr., 18, and James Leon Johnson, II, 18, were arrested yesterday after a drive-by shooting at Sweetwater Square Apartments; a third subject was reportedly involved but was not located. Green was charged with resisting an officer without violence, and Johnson was charged with grand theft of a firearm, grand theft of a vehicle, fleeing, and resisting an officer without violence.
At about 1:06 p.m. on Wednesday, Gainesville Police Department officers responded to calls from the area of 3501 NE 15th Street that several shots had been fired from a white Chevrolet Avalanche. Officers found the vehicle on NE Waldo Road and attempted to conduct a traffic stop, but the vehicle reportedly fled at high speed, and officers eventually discontinued the chase. The car was later found, unoccupied, in the 400 block of NE 25th Street.
Officers formed a perimeter in the area and canvassed apartments at Lake Terrace Apartments on NE 26th Street; several subjects were reportedly seen fleeing from the vehicle, and officers ran after them.