A 22-year-old Sarasota man is standing trial this week in connection to a shooting at Ackerman Park in December 2021 that killed a teenage bystander.
Nyquan Priester was charged with second-degree murder, discharging a firearm from a vehicle, and altering, destroying, or concealing physical evidence after he was arrested in January 2022 in connection to the shooting.
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What happened at Ackerman Park on the night of the fatal shooting?
During the late-night hours of Dec. 29, 2021, just before 11 p.m., several gunshots rang out from the backseat of a car at Ackerman Park where roughly 50 people had gathered, according to previous Herald-Tribune reporting.
One of the bullets hit an 18-year-old bystander in the back, and when paramedics arrived in a nearby parking lot where he was taken following the shooting, they pronounced him dead. The victim’s identity was not released as his family opted to protect their privacy.