Sanford police investigate overnight shooting that injured one person
Sanford police found one person shot near Hartwell Avenue and Mitch Court after a 1:40 a.m. call, adding a second morning shooting to an already tense weekend.
Sanford police were called to Hartwell Avenue and Mitch Court at about 1:40 a.m. after reports of a shooting and found one person with a gunshot wound. Officers arranged for the victim to be taken to a local hospital, and police said the injuries were not life-threatening.
The shooting added another urgent public-safety response for Sanford on a weekend that already included multiple violent incidents. Police said this was the second reported shooting in the city on Saturday morning, but investigators said the two cases were not connected.
That distinction matters for residents near Hartwell Avenue, Mitch Court and other nearby neighborhoods trying to gauge whether the violence is spreading or staying isolated. So far, Sanford police have not tied the overnight shooting to the separate block-party gunfire in the Midway neighborhood, where a Seminole County deputy shot and killed an armed man after shots rang out at a large crowd event.
The Hartwell Avenue and Mitch Court case also lands against a recent run of separate shooting investigations in Sanford. On June 7, police were investigating two early-morning shootings near Historic Goldsboro Boulevard that left one man dead and another seriously injured. Last year, on May 27, 2025, police investigated another shooting in the Windchase Boulevard area that left one person hospitalized with non-life-threatening injuries.
Taken together, the cases show Sanford police have repeatedly been dealing with fast-moving overnight shootings in different parts of the city, from Historic Goldsboro Boulevard to Windchase Boulevard and now Hartwell Avenue and Mitch Court. The pattern has kept detectives busy and left neighbors looking for clearer answers about what is driving the gunfire, where the next call may come from and whether the recent violence is connected or simply hitting the city in separate bursts.
For now, the department has said only that the victim survived with non-life-threatening injuries and that the investigation is continuing.
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