Plant City Police arrested 18-year-old Abel C. Dimas in connection with a murder and shooting that occurred Saturday morning.

Police said at 8:48 a. m., officers responded to the 800 block of East Laura Street on a call of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found 51-year-old Laronia Fay Bowers and 59-year-old Edward Mincey with gunshot wounds to their upper body.

Bowers and Mincey were transported to a local hospital, but Bowers later died. No information on Mincey’s condition was released.

Within minutes of the shooting, a police officer saw a maroon SUV matching the description of the suspect vehicle. A felony stop was made and contact was made with the occupants, one of them, Abel C. Dimas.

Dimas was taken into custody on charges of second-degree murder and attempted second-degree murder. He is being held without bond.