Two Gainesville residents face multiple charges following an argument than escalated into gunshots being fired outside a University of Florida dormitory.
University police Maj. Brad Barber told The Gainesville Sun an argument broke out as people were leaving a bar.
The school sent out a safety alert at 3:21 a.m. stating shots were fired in the Murphree Hall lot, which is student housing. Murphree Hall is located across the street from the football stadium.
The school then sent an another alert out at 3:41 a.m. stating a suspect with a firearm was taken into custody.
UF Alert Suspect with firearm in custody. Poss witnesses in blue Mazda truck location unknown. Report any information to UPD at 352-392-1111
— Univ of Florida (@UF) July 27, 2015
Barber says 25-year-old Clay Allen Shanks is accused of punching someone in the jaw before the two groups separated. He pulled a gun from a purse held by his 21-year-old girlfriend Sara Elizabeth Gooden and fired once into the ground of the Murphree Hall parking lot.
Gooden got into a car with her friend and was arrested a short time later. Shanks was arrested by Gainesville police.
They remain in the Alachua County Jail. It's not known whether they've hired lawyers.
No one was injured in the shooting.