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Klondike Road Homicide Victim Identified
March 8, 2017
UPDATE: The victim in a shooting Tuesday has been identified as 29-year-old Thadius Edward Watson. No arrests have been made.
The Escambia County Sheriff’s Office said the shooting was likely drug related.
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An apparent homicide is under investigation in Escambia County.
An adult male was found dead from gunshot wounds in the 8000 block of Klondike Road, south of Wilde Lake Boulevard near the Klondike Kennels.
Reports indicated that the man was found near the edge of the roadway. The shooting was reported about 12:40 Tuesday afternoon.
The man’s identity has not yet been released pending notification of next of kin. No information has been released on any suspect or suspects in the shooting.
Klondike Road was closed due to the investigation.
More details will be posted as they become available.
NorthEscambia.com photos by Kristi Barbour, click to enlarge.
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10 Responses to “Klondike Road Homicide Victim Identified”
This article states the incident was LIKELY drug related, so none of you should be making assumptions that this victim was a dealer or user! This man has lost his life, have some respect. Yes your choice of lifestyle will increase or decrease your odds of becoming a victim of murder, but no one deserves to loose their life by the hands of another, other than the Man upstairs.
Good point Shay but there is still a drug user or seller who kills people running around free who could kill innocent people just like Billy did.
Your tirade about how good this man was means nothing if he is doing drugs or even worse selling drugs. How ludacris to chastise people for their opinion and retaliate with comments like “he was a good man” and he was someone’s child. He was involved in drug activity that makes him not a good person. Btw Hitler had parents. Didn’t make him a great guy!! You’re comment is ridiculous!!
Also comparing the deaths of those ladies last month is a slap in the face to those victims. They weren’t drug addicts or dealers but guess what? Their killer was!! No one said this victim deserved to die. They simply stated that if you are involved in drugs you will die if you don’t get out. Period!!!
I can’t believe the ignorant comments on this post. That was still someone’s child. Nobody is perfect! At the end of the day God can only judge who is and isn’t perfect! And I’m sure none of u were always perfect in the past. But just because of what someone does doesn’t mean the person deserves to die, or that a mother and father should have to burry their child. I actually knew this guy, just met him a couple months ago, but he wasn’t a bad person at all. He didn’t treat people badly at all. U never know when it could be u, your lover one, or one of your friends. And never say never! And u can’t say it’s how u live your life. Cause what about the ladies that lost their lives a last month to Billy boyette? One lady just got off work, and one was home with her child, so how did they lives their lives wrong? Very sad.
Klondike Kid I was thinking the same thing. It is not Beulah.
My dad used that handle on the CB radio his whole life. Klondike Kid..
I was Klondike kid Jr
@Brandy
You’re absolutely correct. I can walk out of the house and a tree could fall on me and kill me but if you’re involved with drugs the odds are increased exponentially.
There is still a Murderer out there. That same person who killed this man can kill anyone. No matter how you live it can happen to anyone people do get murdered for all sorts of reasons.
imagine that…drug related. Live by the sword, die by the sword. Maybe he should have kept better company.
I am sorry for the loss of life but that lifestyle has only 3 possible endings – Clean up, covered up (graveyard) or locked up. Once again I had to correct the other media that no part of Klondike Road is in ” Beulah “. Klondike Road is in Klondike, as it has always been. Beulah is west of 11 Mile Creek. I guess all these outlanders don’t understand Escambia County historical geography.
Seems that in Escambia County Florida we are hearing of Murders, Shootings, Drugs, EVERY Day.
Have lost count does anyone know how many people have become dead by other than natural causes?
Hear that the number of Opioid and other Drug-Related deaths is high too. Why do we not hear of them?
Tough times for our society….God Bless the First Responders. LEO and the rest of us who walk or drive around innocently minding our own business.