UPDATE May 21, 2026 , Sarasota News leader writes, The Sarasota Police Department is investigating two shootings that occurred 10 blocks apart on consecutive days this week in the Newtown community of north Sarasota, it announced in separate news releases. The first incident was reported about 5:30 a.m. on Tuesday, May 19, in the 1700 block of 23rd Street in Sarasota, the agency said. The second incident was reported just after 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, May 20, in the 1800 block of 33rd Street, that news release said. May 29, 2026, Body Found Newtown . Human remains found at Newtown work site. The discovery of skeletal remains in northern Sarasota County just outside the Sarasota city limit prompted a multiple-agency response to a wooded area near Newtown . On the morning of Friday, May 29, 2026 construction workers discovered the partial human remains (bones) in a wooded lot off Leonard Reid Avenue just east of U.S. 301. It appears the vacant homeless camp where the huma...