Deputies: Man found dead in car trunk at Manatee County nature preserve
Two people are under arrest after Palmetto Police officers located a man dead inside the trunk of a car with multiple gunshot wounds.
Police found the man at 2 a.m. Sunday at Palmetto Estuary Nature Preserve and later identified the man as Manuel Escobar, according to a news release from the Manatee County Sheriff's Office.
Homicide detectives learned that Escobar was shot in the area of 28th Avenue and 5th Street East in Bradenton on Saturday after an argument over money. Freddy Sandoval, 25, was arrested in connection with the shooting.
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