Police release new video of person, car linked to deadly Jacksonville Beach shooting

Jacksonville Beach police released a surveillance video Monday afternoon of a man getting into a parked white Buick as a person of interest in the deadly shooting of Leon Bennett, 23.

Bennett was shot and killed near Casa Marina early Sunday morning after a fight started in front of the Pier Cantina.

After the fight, several males involved in the altercation left the area and Bennett headed north along 1st Street, police said.

Jacksonville Beach Ppolice said a white four-door vehicle approached Bennett and an unknown occupant of the car shot Bennett on the sidewalk.

The car, filled with several males, fled, heading west on 7th Avenue North.

Police are now looking for the man seen in the surveillance video in the white-sole shoes.

They said he was an involved in the shooting.

Police said they are also searching through other video from the scene of the fight, but that video from their city cameras were offline at the time.

Jacksonville Beach Mayor Charlie Latham told Action News Jax that there's currently a frequency conflict with cameras.

A memorial of balloons and flowers has emerged since the shooting early Sunday morning.

“We went down there this morning and laid flowers [near a memorial],” said Bennett’s mother Rhonda Kelly.

Bennett was a father in two and also an aspiring rapper calling himself Lee Kahn. 

Bennett had posted two messages on Facebook just a few hours before the shooting, the first saying "beach bars" and the second "lol, smh..expletive gone be expletive."

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