Damage from a bullet hole that struck one of the city's elevated water towers during a Dunedin man's pre-dawn shooting spree in December, not only caused a 550,000-gallon leak, but cost $3,400 in repairs.
A single bullet hole that leaked 550,000 gallons of reclaimed water from a Dunedin reservoir is repaired and back in operation, city officials report. A man, armed against coyotes, went on an allegedly drunken, pre-dawn shooting spree at Dunedin Golf Club striking the 200-foot water tower near Curlew Road on Dec. 11. "Fortunately, the tank was mostly full when the bullet penetrated it," Tom Burke, city engineer, wrote in an email to Dunedin Patch. "The stored water apparently helped to dissipate the bullet’s energy and prevented other damage within the tank." Burke said that after staff learned of the damages, an emergency work order was placed and awarded to Utility Service Co., Inc., the same Perry, GA, company that repainted both of …
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A Dunedin man is arrested for going on an early Tuesday shooting spree in his golf cart at Dunedin Golf Club. No one was injured, but one of his rounds caused damage to the city water tower.
An intoxicated Dunedin man who went on an early morning shooting spree at a golf course and caused damage to the city water tower is in custody, authorities report. Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies responded to several calls from residents saying they heard gunfire in the area of Dunedin Golf Club around 3:40 a.m. Tuesday. They began searching for the source of the gunfire when they saw a vehicle coming off a golf cart access road. When they stopped the cart they encountered Mark Fitzgerald, 49, of 2340 Mangrum Drive, displaying signs of impairment. He was armed with a high-powered .308-caliber rifle and a 45-caliber handgun. Fitzgerald had fired rounds earlier while riding in his golf cart on the course, deputies report. Fitzgerald told…
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Donna Moore
2:41 pm on Tuesday, January 29, 2013
You know what....people make mistakes. I personally know him and he is the most kind and thoughtful person I know. He actually saved someone's life on the golf course but no one ever mentioned that did they. more ›