From the Pensacola Police Department:
At approximately 11:30 p.m., officers responded to Sacred Heart Hospital in reference to a juvenile who had been shot. The investigation revealed the shooting happened at the Pensacola Village apartments.
A short time later, two other juvenile victims, one at Baptist, and the other at Sacred Heart said they were hit by gunfire at Pensacola Village. A fourth juvenile victim who did not report his injuries was found inside an apartment at the Village.
Investigators discovered all four victims were standing near each other and received fragment wounds from a single gunshot that ricocheted.
That’s all we have for now. I will ask Mayor D.C. Reeves for an update during his press conference at 10 a.m. today.
During yesterday’s Women For Responsible Legislation mayoral forum, Mayor Reeves loudly boasted that the City of Pensacola has been “the fourth safest city in the United States during my administration.” A lie. According to the National League of Cities, there are 19,495 municipalities in the United States. Is Pensacola’s crime rate #19,492 lowest on that list? No. Until about 2003, Pensacola’s crime rate was below the state average. Then, it began to creep upwards reaching a peak of +77% over the state average during the Hayward Administration. In 2020, the last year of the old crime reporting system, the City of Pensacola’s per capita crime rate was 3,369.5 per 100,000, worse than the Escambia County Sheriff’s crime rate (3,126,6) and the Florida crime rate (2,150.0) and far worse than the overall Santa Rosa County crime rate (1.052.8). (Most PPD Officers refuse to live in “our” community and I suspect that more live in Santa Rosa County in the City of Pensacola.) Under the new crime reporting system in place since 2021, the PPD may have not submitted its crime data to Tallahassee or submitted incomplete data. In 2024, there were five major incidents in the park across from my house: 1) three teenagers shot up the park with a BB-rifle for 30 minutes (PPD arrived at +33 minutes, too late); 2) there were two fires set in the park (one damaging the playground equipment); and 3) there were two shootings (PPD didn’t look for the 9mm shell casings, I had to call PPD to come collect them as I found them). A PPD Officer told me that PPD doesn’t enforce city laws in city parks. We know. People use drugs, smoke, vape, drink, have sex and do all sorts of stuff “in” the park late at night but PPD ignores it. The PPD’s crime data for 2025 reported to FDLE sure seems incomplete to include 0 burglaries reported. But, in 2025 PPD did report 17 Forcible Sexual Offenses and 198 Simple Assaults, and more. 4th safest? Again, no.