By james art 
A man was shot and killed early Sunday morning at the Parkway Center shopping plaza on Apalachee Parkway.
The Tallahassee Police Department said they received a call around 2:15 a.m. about a shooting in the parking lot of the shopping center located at 1147 Apalachee Parkway.
“Upon arrival, officers found an elderly male unresponsive with a gunshot wound,” TPD said in social media posts. “The victim was given medical assistance, but unfortunately he was pronounced dead at the scene.
No other details about the shooting and the circumstances have been released.
TPD said the Violent Crimes Unit and Forensic Science Unit are investigating. The department said no arrests had been made and did not immediately say if there were any suspects.
“This remains an open and active investigation and updates will be provided as more information becomes available,” TPD said.
It was the second homicide investigation of the weekend. On Friday, TPD launched a homicide investigation after finding a man dead inside a cannabis store. Officers arrived shortly before 6:00 p.m. at the Florida Cannabis Dispensary, 220 W. Tennessee St., where a man had been shot and killed. “All parties involved have been identified,” but no arrests were made Friday night, a TPD spokesman said.
It was the second time this year that a fatal shooting has erupted at the mall, which sits in the virtual shadow of the Capitol complex. On May 12, two days after the Tallahassee tornado, multiple people were shot, including two men who died. Sunday’s shooting came just over 48 hours after Hurricane Helena slammed into Taylor County.
The incident marked the 48th serious shooting in the capital and district this year. According to a Tallahassee Democrat analysis of gun violence, 19 people have died and at least 39 people have been injured so far in 2024.
Back-to-back shootings break summer lull in gun violence.
In 2023, 24 people died and at least 72 were injured in 87 mass shootings in the capital and county. They generated a series of sobering statistics, many from the summer when the city suffered a spate of shootings.
According to a Tallahassee Democrat analysis of gun violence, the summer crime spike included three separate double homicides, a mass shooting, three homicides in one 24-hour period and five accidental shootings — three of them fatal — in one month.
Contact Jeff Burlew at [email protected] or 850-599-2180.
This article originally appeared in the Tallahassee Democrat: Tallahassee police investigate fatal mall shooting