It was 4:22 a.m. Sunday.

In the near-silence of the night, a Polk County Sheriff’s Office lieutenant heard what sounded like automatic gunfire erupt from a neighborhood about two miles west.

The gunfire was coming from North Socrum Loop Road near Fulton Green Road in unincorporated Lakeland. It was the same area where a woman had called 911 about a suspicious car and man roughly nine hours earlier. But, when authorities arrived the first time, no suspicious man was found.

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