31-year-old suspect reported to have fired at victim’s vehicle
A 31-year-old Sarasota woman has been arrested in connection with a shooting that occurred on May 20 on 33rd Street in Sarasota, the Sarasota Police Department has reported.
Jasmine Shakia Martin, of 1073 Colleton Drive in Sarasota, was taken into custody on Sunday, May 24, the Police Department said in a news release. She formally was charged with discharging a firearm from a vehicle.
Martin was released on $15,000 bond on May 25, her Sarasota County Jail booking record notes. Her arraignment was scheduled for June 26, the record said.
On May 20, as The Sarasota News Leader reported, Sarasota Police officers responded to an alert that came in close to 4:30 p.m. regarding a shooting in the 1800 block of 33rd Street. “Through their investigation,” a second news release explained, “detectives learned Martin fired three shots at the victim’s vehicle. No injuries were reported. Martin then fled the area in a red Toyota Camry.”
“This is an ongoing investigation,” the news release pointed out. Anyone with information regarding the case is asked to email Sarasota Police Department Detective Ross Revill at Ross.Revill@SarasotaFL.gov or to call him at 941-263-6092, the release added. Those wishing to remain anonymous may contact Crime Stoppers of Sarasota County at 941-366-TIPS (8477), it noted.
‘Come out! Come out! Come out!’
The Probable Cause Affidavit in the case says that officers were called to the residence located at 1850 33rd St. in Sarasota about 4:42 p.m. on May 20. When they arrived, the 28-year-old victim told them she was inside when Martin “came up to the front door,” adding that she is acquainted with Martin and knew Martin possibly could have a firearm in her possession.
The victim said she “could hear Martin banging on the front door” and then Martin yelled, “ ‘Come out! Come out! Come out?’ ”
The affidavit adds that the victim reported that she “observed Martin through one of the windows”; she watched as Martin walked back to her red Toyota Camry “and [sat] in the driver’s side with the door open.” The vehicle was parked in the driveway, the victim noted; it faced the front door and the victim’s vehicle, which was parked in the front yard, the affidavit says.
“Martin did not say anything further,” the victim continued in the affidavit, and the victim remained in her residence.
The victim then told the officers that she had sat down and begun “going through her phone,” the affidavit continues, when she “heard open fire, so [she] started getting down because [she thought Martin] was aiming towards the house … It sounded like a couple shots,” the affidavit quotes her. “ ‘[I]t sounded loud,’ ” the affidavit notes.
When she exited the house, the victim added, she saw that Martin was aiming at the victim’s car.
The victim estimated that it had been only 90 seconds to 2 minutes after Martin left her house before the victim heard the shots, the affidavit says.
Further, the victim told the officers that “Martin was the only occupant of the vehicle and there was no one else around the front of the residence,” the affidavit notes.
The victim “stated that after Martin fired approximately three rounds, she then left the residence,” the affidavit says. The victim “did not directly see Martin’s vehicle leave the residence bud did hear the engine revving and leaving the scene,” it points out.
Officers found three bullet holes, the affidavit notes: one in the hood of the victim’s vehicle and two in the front bumper. “There was no other damage to persons or property,” the affidavit adds.
A law enforcement database showed Martin’s vehicle at the intersection of Desoto Road and Middle Avenue at 4:42 p.m., the affidavit says. “It must be noted that the crime scene was located approximately four minutes away from that intersection, which was consistent with a timeline of Martin’s vehicle leaving the crime scene following the 911 call/gunshots,” the affidavit points out.
The victim told the officers that she believed “Martin was possibly looking for [the victim’s] boyfriend at the residence,” though the victim said he was not present, the affidavit continues. One other explanation the victim offered, the affidavit says, was that Martin “was attempting to locate [the victim] since she was now with the boyfriend,” the affidavit notes.
The victim informed an officer “that she … had seen Martin’s vehicle in her proximity in the past, but never had any face-to-face confrontations with her,” the affidavit adds.
A News Leader review of charges that have been filed against Martin since August 2011, as provided through the records of the 12th judicial Circuit Court in Sarasota, found that she had been cited for numerous traffic violations, including having no driver’s license or driving while her license was suspended, cancelled or revoked (five counts); having no motor vehicle registration; driving on a sidewalk or bicycle path (That incident occurred on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Way in Sarasota in 2015.); two counts of speeding (In a 2018 incident, she was cited for driving 85 mph in a 70-mph zone on Interstate 75); failing to use a child restraint as required by state law; and use of an all-terrain vehicle on a roadway.