Gainesville Double Shooting: Two Killed, One Charged

# DHF-032 — Gainesville Double Shooting: Two Killed, One Charged

**Case No. DHF-032 | Subject: Two people killed in a shooting on West University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida | Date: 1 November 2026 (shooting and arrest) | Location: 1100 block of West University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida, USA | Status: CHARGED**

**Posted:** 2 November 2026

**Status stamp: CHARGED**

> **Image note for readers:** All images in this file are original illustrations created for Dark History Files. They are atmospheric artwork, not photographs and not real evidence. No image in this file depicts either victim, the charged man, any member of any family, any investigator, or any real person, and no image depicts any act of violence or any death.

*Caption: Case card for DHF-032 — Gainesville West University Avenue shooting, Gainesville, Florida. Status: CHARGED.*

## THE FILE CARD

| **Case File No.** | DHF-032 |

| --- | --- |

| **Subject** | Two people killed in a shooting on West University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida |

| **Date** | 1 November 2026, about 4:00 a.m. (shooting); 1 November 2026 (arrest and charges) |

| **Location** | 1100 block of West University Avenue, Gainesville, Florida, USA, near the University of Florida |

| **Status** | CHARGED |

| **Investigating authority** | Gainesville Police Department (GPD) |

| **Charged person** | Trevez Ravell McRae, 29, of Gainesville, Florida — charged, not convicted |

| **Charges (as reported from the arrest report)** | Two counts of first-degree homicide (first-degree murder); possession of a firearm by a convicted felon; resisting an officer without violence |

| **Victims** | Two people, identities not released in the sources relied on here; both taken to UF Health Shands Hospital and pronounced dead there |

| **One-line summary** | In the early hours of Sunday 1 November 2026, two people were shot and killed in the 1100 block of West University Avenue in Gainesville, Florida; police officers already patrolling nearby arrested Trevez Ravell McRae, 29, at the scene, and he has been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide. He is presumed innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. |

> **Why this file is stamped CHARGED:** The stamp records only the procedural position as it stands on 1 November 2026. A charge is an accusation, not a conviction. The Gainesville Police Department says McRae was arrested and charged; no trial has taken place, no plea is reported in the sources relied on here, and no court has found him guilty or not guilty. If the case proceeds to a plea, a trial verdict, or a dismissal, this file will be updated, dated, and re-stamped — never quietly rewritten.

## THE CASE

### A street that was already awake

West University Avenue in Gainesville is not a quiet road at 4:00 a.m. on a Sunday. It runs past the University of Florida, and the 1100 block — the stretch at the centre of this file — holds the late-night businesses that stay open after the bars and lounges close: a service station, a lounge, fast-food outlets, and the sidewalks where groups of young people gather, argue, and drift home. That is the setting the police record describes: a public place, in front of other people, within sight of patrolling officers.

The Gainesville Police Department's own account, issued on 1 November 2026 and republished in full by the Alachua Chronicle, is short. It says the department was investigating a shooting in the area of 1100 West University Avenue at around 4:00 a.m. that morning, that officers and investigators remained on the scene conducting an active investigation, and that the public was asked to avoid the immediate area. Later that day the release was updated with a single further sentence: Trevez Ravell McRae, 29, had been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree homicide, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and resisting an officer without violence. The release gives no victim names, no motive, and no account of what led to the shooting. This file keeps to the same limits wherever the police record stops, and says so plainly when it does.

What the fuller reporting adds comes from the GPD arrest report, as reported by The Gainesville Sun and the Alachua Chronicle. Those two outlets agree on the core sequence, and this file follows their shared account, attributed throughout to the arrest report rather than stated as independently established fact. Where they differ in small details — the Sun says officers heard gunshots "at about 4 a.m.", the Chronicle's arrest account puts patrolling officers hearing gunshots at about 3:59 a.m. — this file says "about 4:00 a.m." and does not pretend to a precision the record does not support.

### The shooting, as the arrest report describes it

According to the arrest report, Gainesville police officers were patrolling in the area of 1100 West University Avenue when they heard gunshots. Responding officers saw a man, later identified as McRae, running from the parking lot of the Chevron service station at 1024 West University Avenue. Police say he ignored commands to stop. An officer then saw him drop a handgun near the corner of University Avenue and Southwest 10th Street, according to the report, and McRae then surrendered to police.

Two victims were found. One was found near the corner of West University Avenue and Northwest 10th Street; the other was found outside 1010 West University Avenue. Both had at least one gunshot wound, according to the reporting of the arrest report. Officers gave aid until ambulances arrived, and both victims were taken to UF Health Shands Hospital, where they were pronounced dead. This file deliberately says no more about their injuries than that. The manner in which they died is a matter for the medical and court record, and the sources relied on here give no further detail that a careful file needs.

The arrest report's account of how the shooting began rests on surveillance video, as described by both outlets. According to that account, two large groups were arguing on the sidewalk near the Chevron, and the argument escalated into pushing and hitting. The video is said to show McRae being struck on the head during the fighting. McRae and one of the victims then backed away from each other, and McRae pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired at that victim, according to the report. The report then describes McRae running west and firing again, approaching a second victim who was walking away, and shooting that person. Police say McRae is clearly identifiable in the video, and that the video does not show anyone else firing a weapon during the incident.

Those sentences need a caution that this file states at the outset and repeats here: they are the arrest report's account, as reported. Surveillance video has not been released publicly in the sources relied on here, and no court has yet tested this account. A reader should treat it as what the police say the video shows, not as a finding of fact. That distinction is the whole difference between a charge and a conviction, and it is why every sentence in this section is attributed.

### What McRae told police

After his arrest, McRae spoke to police, and the arrest report records what he said. The Gainesville Sun and the Alachua Chronicle report those statements in matching terms, and this file reports them as statements, not as established facts.

McRae told police he had been with friends at the Kava Lounge at 1007 West University Avenue, and that after it closed, he and his friends were on the north side of the intersection of West University Avenue and Northwest 10th Street. He said one of his friends had argued with another group earlier in the evening, and that he thought the dispute might escalate, so he asked a friend if he could borrow a gun. According to the report, the gun was handed to him minutes before the shooting.

He told police that when the two groups began fighting, he tried to break up the fight, but that after he was punched in the head he panicked and began firing at the first victim, saying he was willing to defend himself by any means necessary. He told police he shot the second victim because that person had been fighting with his friend. He denied intentionally dropping the gun while running from police, telling officers it must have fallen from his pocket.

This file records those statements because they are part of the arrest record, and because they are the only account from the charged man that the public record currently offers. It does not adopt them, and it does not test them. Whether they amount to a defence, and how a court weighs them against the surveillance account, is a question for the court process, not for this file. No motive beyond what those statements contain has been stated by police, and this file states none. In particular, police have not released a motive in their public release, and the reporting relied on here does not attribute one to them.

### Two people whose names are not yet public

The most conspicuous gap in this file is also the one readers will notice first: the two people who died are not named here. That is not an omission by this file. In every reputable source relied on here — the GPD release, The Gainesville Sun, the Alachua Chronicle, and the Mainstreet Daily News report — the victims are not identified. The local television report from WCJB, carried on social media on 1 November 2026, likewise states that victim identities had not been released. Police said they would release more information as it became available.

That restraint has a reason, and it is worth stating. Families are notified before names are published, and in a case where two people died within minutes of each other in a public place, next of kin may still be learning what happened. A case file published within a day of the shooting should not fill that gap from unofficial sources. Since this shooting, social-media graphics have circulated naming a person said to be one of the victims. Those graphics are not police releases and are not reporting by a reputable outlet, and this file does not repeat the name they carry. If the Gainesville Police Department or a reputable outlet names the victims, this file will be updated with the names, the date, and the source.

What can be said about the victims is limited to what the record supports: two people, found at two nearby locations on West University Avenue, taken to the same hospital, pronounced dead there. Their ages, their connection to Gainesville or to the university, and whether they knew each other or knew McRae are not stated in the sources relied on here, and this file does not guess. The university connection, in particular, needs care: the shooting happened near the University of Florida, and several reports describe it that way, but no source relied on here states that either victim was a student. This file therefore does not call them students, and does not imply it.

### The charges, and what comes next

McRae has been charged with two counts of first-degree homicide, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and resisting an officer without violence. The first-degree homicide counts are the charges that carry this file's stamp: they allege that McRae killed two people, and they are the reason this is a homicide file rather than an assault file. The firearm charge alleges possession of a firearm by a person with a prior felony conviction; the resisting charge alleges that he did not stop when officers ordered him to. All three are charges, and all three remain to be proven.

No plea, no bail decision, and no court date is reported in the sources relied on here. The Alachua Chronicle's arrest account notes that a judge would decide on bail the following day, but no outcome of that decision is reported in any source relied on here, and this file does not state one. No lawyer for McRae is named in the sources relied on here, and no statement from a defence lawyer is reported. Those absences are normal within a day of an arrest, and they are recorded here so that a reader does not mistake silence for a missing fact.

What would change this file is straightforward. If police name the victims, if a court records a plea, if bail is set or denied, if a trial produces a verdict, or if charges are dropped or changed, this file will be updated with the date, the source, and a new stamp if the facts require it. Until then, the honest position is the one the record supports: two people are dead, one man is charged, and the court process has not yet spoken.

### Why this file is published now

This file is published the day after the shooting, while the record is short, and that timing is deliberate. A case file published now fixes the verified record — the time, the place, the police release, the arrest-report account with its attributions, the charges, and the gaps — before unofficial detail hardens into accepted fact. In a case that is already being discussed widely online, with social-media graphics naming people the police have not named and comment threads speculating about motive, a file that says exactly what is confirmed and exactly what is not is more useful than a file that waits for completeness and arrives after the speculation has settled.

The test for publishing a live file of this kind is not whether the story is complete. It is whether the verified facts are enough to be useful, and whether the file can be written without guessing at the rest. Here, the verified facts are enough: a dated police release, a detailed arrest report carried by two local outlets, a named charged man, three stated charges, two deaths confirmed at a named hospital, and a clear account of what police have not yet released. The guesses have been left out: no victim names from unofficial graphics, no motive beyond the charged man's own reported statements, no claim about who the victims were, and no suggestion that a charge is a conviction. If the court process or a further police release adds to the record, this file will add it, dated and sourced. Until then, the stamp stays CHARGED, and the presumption of innocence stays attached to it.

## TIMELINE

- **1 November 2026, evening (earlier that night)** — McRae tells police he was with friends at the Kava Lounge, 1007 West University Avenue, Gainesville. He says one of his friends had argued with another group earlier in the evening. (Arrest report, as reported; attributed, not independently established.)

- **1 November 2026, about 4:00 a.m.** — Gainesville Police Department officers patrolling in the area of 1100 West University Avenue hear gunshots. Two people are shot: one near the corner of West University Avenue and Northwest 10th Street, the other outside 1010 West University Avenue.

- **1 November 2026, minutes after the shooting** — Responding officers see McRae running from the parking lot of the Chevron at 1024 West University Avenue; police say he ignored commands to stop, an officer saw him drop a handgun near University Avenue and Southwest 10th Street, and McRae then surrendered. Both victims are taken to UF Health Shands Hospital and pronounced dead there.

- **1 November 2026, morning** — The Gainesville Police Department issues a release saying it is investigating a shooting in the area of 1100 West University Avenue at around 4:00 a.m., that officers and investigators remain on scene, and that the public should avoid the immediate area. Local television (WCJB) reports from the scene that both victims died at the hospital and that motive and victim identities had not been released.

- **1 November 2026, afternoon (3:45 p.m. update)** — The GPD release is updated: Trevez Ravell McRae, 29, has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree homicide, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and resisting an officer without violence.

- **1 November 2026, evening** — The Gainesville Sun (5:29 p.m.) and the Alachua Chronicle report the arrest in full from the GPD arrest report, including the surveillance-video account and McRae's post-arrest statements. No plea, bail outcome, or court date is reported in the sources relied on here.

- **2 November 2026** — As of the sources relied on here, victim identities and a police-stated motive have still not been released, and no court outcome has been reported. This file is published on this date.

## EVIDENCE & LEADS

- **The GPD release (Gainesville Police Department, 1 November 2026, via the Alachua Chronicle):** A shooting occurred in the area of 1100 West University Avenue at around 4:00 a.m.; officers and investigators remained on scene; the public was asked to avoid the immediate area. The 3:45 p.m. update adds the arrest and the three charges. Anyone with information is asked to contact GPD at 352-393-7700, or Alachua County Crime Stoppers anonymously at 352-372-STOP (7867), via the P3 Tips app, or online at stopcrime.tv.

- **The arrest at the scene (GPD arrest report, via The Gainesville Sun and the Alachua Chronicle):** Patrolling officers heard gunshots at about 4:00 a.m.; a man later identified as McRae was seen running from the Chevron parking lot at 1024 West University Avenue; police say he ignored commands to stop; an officer saw him drop a handgun near University Avenue and Southwest 10th Street; McRae then surrendered.

- **The two victims (arrest report, via both outlets; GPD release; WCJB, 1 November 2026):** One victim found near West University Avenue and Northwest 10th Street, the other outside 1010 West University Avenue; both had at least one gunshot wound, were given aid by officers until ambulances arrived, were taken to UF Health Shands Hospital, and were pronounced dead there. Victim identities have not been released in any source relied on here.

- **The surveillance-video account (arrest report, via both outlets):** Two large groups argued on the sidewalk near the Chevron; the argument escalated into pushing and hitting; McRae was struck on the head during the fighting; McRae and one victim backed away from each other, and McRae pulled a handgun from his waistband and fired at that victim; McRae then ran west, approached a second victim who was walking away, and shot that person. Police say McRae is clearly identifiable in the video and that no one else is shown firing a weapon. This is the arrest report's account, not a court finding, and the video has not been publicly released in the sources relied on here.

- **McRae's post-arrest statements (arrest report, via both outlets):** He had been with friends at the Kava Lounge, 1007 West University Avenue; a friend had argued with another group earlier in the evening; he asked a friend for a gun because he thought the dispute might escalate, and it was handed to him minutes before the shooting; he tried to break up the fight, panicked after being punched in the head, and fired at the first victim to defend himself by any means necessary; he shot the second victim because that person had been fighting with his friend; he denied intentionally dropping the gun, saying it must have fallen from his pocket. All attributed to his statements to police; none adopted as fact by this file.

- **The charges (GPD release update; arrest report, via both outlets):** Two counts of first-degree homicide, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, resisting an officer without violence. No plea, bail outcome, court date, or defence statement is reported in the sources relied on here.

- **What is NOT evidence in this file:** any victim name (including names circulating in unofficial social-media graphics, which this file deliberately does not repeat); any police-stated motive; any claim that either victim was a student; any prior criminal history beyond what the firearm charge itself alleges; any wound detail beyond "at least one gunshot wound"; any claim that other Gainesville shootings reported the same day are connected to this case (no source relied on here links them); and any suggestion that a charge is a conviction.

*Caption: Illustration of an empty college-town street at night — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of West University Avenue and not evidence.*

## STILL UNKNOWN

- **Who were the two people who died?** Police have not released their identities in any source relied on here. Their names, ages, and any connection to Gainesville or the university are not stated, and this file does not fill the gap from unofficial sources.

- **What was the motive?** No police-stated motive has been released. The only motive-related material in the record is McRae's own reported statements to police, which this file attributes and does not adopt.

- **What happened before the argument on the sidewalk?** McRae's reported account mentions an earlier argument between his friend and another group that evening. No independent account of that earlier argument is reported in the sources relied on here.

- **Has McRae entered a plea, and what happened on bail?** No plea, bail outcome, or court date is reported in the sources relied on here. The arrest account notes only that a judge would decide on bail the following day.

- **Has a defence statement been made?** No lawyer for McRae is named and no defence statement is reported in the sources relied on here.

- **Is anyone else facing charges?** No source relied on here reports any other arrest or charge in connection with this shooting, and police say the surveillance video does not show anyone else firing a weapon.

- **Are other Gainesville shootings reported on 1 November 2026 connected to this case?** The Alachua Chronicle reports at least three shootings in Gainesville that day, including the two homicides in this file. No source relied on here links the other incidents to this case, and this file does not link them.

> **What would change this file:** if police name the victims, if a court records a plea or a bail decision, if a trial produces a verdict, if charges are dropped or changed, or if police release a motive or further findings, this file will be updated with the date, the source, and the new stamp if the facts require it — never quietly rewritten. Until then, the stamp stays CHARGED, and McRae is presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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## SOURCES

- Gainesville Police Department release, 1 November 2026 (republished in full by the Alachua Chronicle as "GPD investigates shooting in Midtown", updated 3:45 p.m.) — shooting in the area of 1100 West University Avenue at around 4:00 a.m.; officers and investigators on scene; public asked to avoid the area; update: Trevez Ravell McRae, 29, arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree homicide, possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, and resisting an officer without violence; tip contacts GPD 352-393-7700 and Alachua County Crime Stoppers 352-372-STOP (7867), P3 Tips app, stopcrime.tv. This is the primary official source for the incident, the arrest, and the charges.

- The Gainesville Sun, 1 November 2026 (5:29 p.m.) — "29-year-old Gainesville man charged in deadly West University shooting" — read in full: arrest early 1 November; two counts of first-degree murder; arrest-report account (officers heard gunshots at about 4:00 a.m., McRae seen running from the Chevron parking lot at 1024 West University Avenue, ignored commands, dropped a gun near University Avenue and Southwest 10th Street, surrendered); two victims found at West University Avenue and Northwest 10th Street and outside 1010 West University Avenue, both with at least one gunshot wound, taken to UF Health Shands Hospital and pronounced dead; surveillance account (groups arguing, pushing and hitting, McRae struck on the head, fired at the first victim, ran west and shot the second victim who was walking away); McRae's post-arrest statements (Kava Lounge, borrowed gun minutes before, tried to break up the fight, panicked, "defend myself by any means necessary", second victim had been fighting with his friend, gun fell from his pocket). Corroborates the Alachua Chronicle on every key claim.

- Alachua Chronicle, 1 November 2026 — "Man on probation arrested for double homicide in Midtown" — read in full: the fullest arrest-report account, matching The Gainesville Sun on the sequence, the surveillance description, and McRae's statements, with the additional detail that police say McRae is clearly identifiable in the video and that the video does not show anyone else firing a weapon; notes a judge would decide on bail the following day. Corroborates the Sun on every key claim. (This file deliberately does not repeat the Chronicle's background on McRae's prior record beyond what the firearm charge itself alleges; that background is not needed to understand the charges and adds nothing to the verified record of this incident.)

- Mainstreet Daily News, 1 November 2026 — "Sunday morning shooting on West University Avenue kills 2" — read in full: confirms the GPD investigation, the 4:00 a.m. timing, the 1100 West University Avenue location, and the GPD and Crime Stoppers tip contacts; notes GPD would release more information as it became available.

- WCJB TV20 News, 1 November 2026 (on-scene report, via Instagram and Facebook) — two people dead after an early-morning shooting around 4:00 a.m. in the 1100 block of West University Avenue; both victims died at the hospital; investigators on scene that morning; motive and victim identities not released. Corroborates the timing, location, deaths, and the two key gaps (identities, motive).

- No competitor article text or image is reproduced in this file. Facts are stated in Dark History Files' own words, with official material quoted from the police release and the arrest report as reported. No source beyond those listed above was relied on for facts in the draft. No search-volume numbers are stated, because no tool returned any.

> **Information box — if you have information:** If you were on West University Avenue in Gainesville in the early hours of Sunday 1 November 2026 and saw anything connected to this shooting, contact the Gainesville Police Department at 352-393-7700, or remain anonymous by contacting Alachua County Crime Stoppers at 352-372-STOP (7867), through the P3 Tips app, or online at stopcrime.tv. Give only what you personally saw or know. Do not repeat names or details from unofficial social-media graphics that the police have not confirmed: the victims have not been officially named, and a charge is not a conviction. If you believe someone is in immediate danger, call 911.

*Caption: Illustration of an empty university-town street at dawn — atmospheric artwork, not a photograph of Gainesville and not evidence.*

**Reader question:** When police have charged a man but have not yet named the people who died, what should a careful record publish first — the charge it can verify, or the names circulating online that it cannot — and what does a reader lose when the unverified version gets there first?

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