21-year-old faces murder, weapons charges in fatal Fort Myers drive-by shooting

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FORT MYERS, Fla. – A 21-year-old man was arrested and faces multiple charges in connection with a fatal drive-by shooting early Saturday morning, Fort Myers police said.

Sheddrick Jubree Brown Jr., of 3151 Price St. in Fort Myers, was taken into custody without incident. He will be charged with second-degree murder, shooting or throwing a missile into a dwelling, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, discharging a firearm in public or on residential property, and criminal mischief.

Brown has previously faced multiple weapons, assault, resisting arrest and vehicle theft charges, according to jail records.

“The swift arrest of Sheddrick Brown for this heinous crime can only offer some small sense of closure to Gloria Sparrow’s family,” Fort Myers Interim Police Chief Dennis Eads said in a statement.

Gloria Sparrow, 63, was found dead inside a home on Dora Street after a drive-by shooting early Saturday morning.
Gloria Sparrow, 63, was found dead inside a home on Dora Street after a drive-by shooting early Saturday morning.

Sparrow, 63, was found inside a home at 3049 Dora St. at about 1:10 a.m., police said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.

Sparrow, a mother of seven and a grandmother of 19, was playing a board game when she was shot in the head, family members said. She attended New Image Tabernacle Church on Pondella Road in North Fort Myers, where she also sang in the choir, family said.

Investigators are determining if two other early morning crime scenes – one on Market Street and the other at the intersection of Price Avenue and Ford Street – are related.

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